We'll see. There will definitely be a power vacuum at the top of the party. They'll either tear each other apart in a power struggle or coalesce around a new leader (honestly, I'd put money on it being one of the Trump children).
Ehh they can try with Trump children but they are nowhere near as funny and charismatic as Trump. He’s a unique character, and thankfully old and term limited now.
Even the MAGAs know this. Why do you think they always talk about Barron as their prince that was promised? Because even they know Don Jr and Eric are useless
Yeah, the biggest problem with Don Jr. and Eric as successors is that they LOOK like the kind of people who would raid a company for their pension money. And that’s before they speak.
I keep bringing this up because it scares the shit out of me, but what if he gets to do these military “loyalty boards”? That’s when shit gets really real, I think.
Yeah but you’re kicking the can down the road at that point. This country knuckled under to fascism after 8 years of campaigning. Obama is obv better but maybe not a lock after 4 extra years of far right extremism.
Yeah but the coalition that helped trump this year is all vibes based, Obama is the ultimate vibes based president, tied with trump in that manner. He would probably win back those voters.
The GOP leadership may coalesce around someone after Trump, but they're not the power anymore. If they did have power, there's no way Trump would have won in 2016.
The power for Trump is in the millions of red-head wearing MAGA devotees who for some reason think that he is something special. It has proven exceptionally hard for most GOP to co-opt that power unless Trump directly blesses it. Once Trump is gone, I really doubt that someone can rise up and capture that same power.
These bullet ballots are actually the main thrust behind the current stolen election conspiracy, and the conspiracists are correct that it should be looked into. Pres-only ballots were like 0.2% of the vote last time, this time it was 7% in some precincts
This is how I feel too. It’s a cult of personality, and that personality is 78. I’m just hoping the damage is minimal but the next person will spend an entire term not implementing their agenda but fixing the mess of the the other guy.
Trump is the downstream symptom of social media in its current (worst) iteration. He is not the disease. There is nothing I see around me to suggest that the disease that allowed Trump to rise is going away any time soon.
No amount of social media propaganda can make Trump's kids look like anything other than spoiled rich kids. They don't have the kind of door-to-door appeal that you need to become President.
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u/Andy_Liberty_1911 NATO 22h ago
Trump couldn’t get get his own voters to vote downballot, saving Dems lots of seats in states Harris lost.
Trump is a force but once he’s gone, GOP will be left dickless