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Trump has a singularly cultish hold over a rather loose coalition of Americans. With the GOP fully bought in, none of the Constitutional safeguards are actually
by estearum 1y ago
Trump has a singularly cultish hold over a rather loose coalition of Americans. With the GOP fully bought in, none of the Constitutional safeguards are actually operable.
The good news is he’s old and unhealthy. He’s likely to die rather soon, and IMO I’d be very shocked if JD can hold the coalition together.
JD is already disliked by the economic populist right and the white nationalists.
There will be GOP infighting paired with the Democrats almost certainly holding Congress after 2026, and the whole thing will get bogged down.
After 2028 we can put a bunch of these people in prison for the crimes they’ve been bragging about on Twitter, and get to work rebuilding our government.
- juliushuijnk 1y agoJD Vance is smart, he can make Trump Junior the face. It's far from impossible he can hold the GOP and others together. He only needs to explain what you just wrote; If we stop being on top, we'll all die in jail. Also, Musk is wild card in the mix.
- estearum 1y agoTrump Junior doesn’t have what it takes either. There is something legitimately wrong with Trump’s brain that makes him capable of this cult dynamic. It is a generational talent/curse and no one around him replicates it. Voters don’t care about Pam Bondi, JD, Miller et al going to jail. Different factions of the MAGA cinematic universe care about different subsets, and would be more than happy to throw the others to the wolves. Only Trump himself manages to hold it all together.