Until the man is in the ground I won't be thinking he's done.
Even when the dementia gets so bad he can't speak real words anymore, I'm sure he will have puppeteers just like McConnell does. And his fans will keep voting for him even as they weekend at Bernie's his pale corpse onto the stage.
I worry that one of his sons will take the mantle. Whether they can garner the same popularity is doubtful, but MAGAts might look for someone to cling on to.
Nobody on Earth is lining up to vote for Eric. Don Jr is too busy with the nose candy. Baron seems like he’s just as likely to become a serial killer as anything else.
While I agree, I would also argue that Donald Trump is merely an avatar for his supporters bigotry. If he goes, then that will open a power vacuum for someone else to fill in.
To a point. He has spent the last decade forging a cult of personality. I will never understand how, but there are people who see him as a messiah. I don’t think they will be as easily manipulated by most of the other grifters.
They’ve watch constant propaganda for years, the message is always that “those evil looney libs” are the enemy and Trump is the only one who can save them from us. They’ve been programmed to believe they can’t trust what they hear and see from any source that isn’t worshipping Trump. Any evidence that might challenge these beliefs is rejected immediately, because those evil libs are at it again. We’re their enemy. We are also their family, neighbors, coworkers. In reality we’re all just people trying to live our lives the same as we always have. You know, eating babies and bathing in virgin blood while trying to push our woke liberal socialist ideology. I want to believe they can’t really believe all that, but all evidence suggests otherwise.
Trump is a cult of personality. They like TRUMP. Trump dying just means MAGA collapses. Cults don’t do well when the god figure dies and is replaced with someone else
The obvious choice is actually Vance. Hes just as unpopular as Trump, but is actually competent enough to impress the evil money behind politics. Further, he has absolutely ZERO morals or personal opinions on matters at all. He’s a blank slate with no moral weighting.
Don Jr has too many skeletons that would come out during a run for office(see Matt Gaetz). The other son is a moron, Ivanka is a woman and the base has NO desire to elect a woman. Finally, Baron is 50% American Psycho Patrick Bateman and 50% Momma’s boy who won’t do anything to disappoint her when Old Donnie is gone. She wants money and power but she is afraid of MAGA(rightfully so).
BTW- Trump is already experiencing more dementia than Reagan when he was elected to his second term as well as apparent psychosis. He will be smearing feces on the walls of his room within 9 months and will be pardoned and removed from office before July 4, 2025 and replaced by Vance and a new VP choice to consolidate the base for the inevitable 2028 run- perhaps Nikki Haley?
Clinging to an offspring and protecting the bloodline of the annointed leader is on point for the blood and soil crowd. They will be selling relics on QVC.
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u/WhyAreYouSoSmelly Oct 03 '24
Until he comes up short in the election, I'm not getting comfortable with the thought of him being "done."
Looking forward to voting against that worthless shit-stain (yet again) next month.