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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 22 points 19 hours ago

Trump isn't going away, even if he doesn't win. That's what people thought in 2020. Now that Biden's president, Trump will just disappear, right? Wrong.

And yes, I know he said that he won't run again in 2028, but I don't believe it. His cult would beg him to run again, and he'd do it.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The nazis pinned so much of their cult on his engorged, dying pus sac of a body that they may lose a substantial amount of steam if he loses.

A loss of steam that needs to be aggressively and ruthlessly leveraged to undo and bolster against as much of their nazi bullshit as humanly possible.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago
  1. He did go away for a while, but not by choice. He was banned from Twitter, his reddit group quarantined, and news stations fucking finally decided to stop reporting on his every stupid statement
  2. Of course he won't run again in 2028, he'll be dead. The dude looks like he's knocking on ~~heaven's~~ hell's door right now.
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, he's 78, and I doubt he'll hold up at 82.

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 24 points 18 hours ago

I think he'll be either dead or not lucid enough to run personally

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

We can all hope, and this time we're probably gonna be right.

But the Republicans aren't running out of people.

There's no reason to think Trump's end will make the bad half of America stop this push. There's a relatively good chance they'll find a sufficiently appealing new leader or puppet. If that falls, maybe you can rest and go back to casually provoking the religious right, playing catch with your rights, and still stay safe for a while. Members of the LGBT community dropping "Live and let live." in favor of "Use the right pronouns!" was a potentially fatal mistake.

[-] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 7 points 16 hours ago

While you're definitely correct that Trump isn't the last bigot who will run for president, none of them will have rhe same level of influence he did.

Trump is a literal cult leader. You have pastors like Shane Vaughn who literally call him "a messiah." He is literally worshipped. That's why he could get away with Jan 6th, that's why he'll have so many voters no matter what, it's a cult.

With the above said, the his defeat will dishearten his mkst fervent followers. I believe many of them will never be able to bring themselves to vote for another candidate, ever. Not all, but many. Republican voter enthusiasm will be at an all time low.

Following this, the infighting we already see will only get worse as would-be successors fight for the scraps that their titan left behind while others fight to leave Trumpism in the dust. Even if they manage to get a majority, they'd accomplish nothing meaningful.

Their entire plan hinges on Donald Trump's cult influence. The depend on his rabid base of supporters. If he loses this election, that goes away. The remnants will be fought over, but none of them will be able to touch the level of influence Trump himself had. His legacy will leave the Republican party fractured for decades.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago
[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago
[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I hope he lives for 40 more years to watch himself become less and less relevant, with nazi republican losers continuing to pin their hopes on him that he is increasingly unable to deliver.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I fear what they're going to come up to replace him with.

[-] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Neoconservatism is dying out. Right wing anti-liberalism is on the rise. Vance is the marshmallow tip of the spear.

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 16 hours ago

He might be gone, but his cult isn't.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Cults require a charismatic figurehead. Vance doesn't have that. Without a leader, they'll fall into infighting and purity tests.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

If he doesn't end up in prison or the psych ward he'll be too old to "run" again.

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