return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 days agoDonald Trump quips he can't run in 2028 unless Republicans 'do something'www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1354arrow-down110
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minus-squareMnemnosyne@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·9 days agoUpside is the cult of personality is attached to Trump, and no one else has been able to pull it off him. Trump is only effective because somehow, for some insane reason, he, personally, has a lot of devoted followers.
minus-squareAAA@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 days agoThe cult is attached to Trump, yes. But when he dies his followers won’t suddenly wake up from their madness and flock behind a “normal candidate”. They will still go for the crazy ones who act and talk the way Trump did. There may not be a second Trump, but they are lost nevertheless.
minus-squareMesophar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoBut, hopefully, they won’t fall in line behind a single successor and instead splinter into a bunch of smaller, competing factions.
Upside is the cult of personality is attached to Trump, and no one else has been able to pull it off him. Trump is only effective because somehow, for some insane reason, he, personally, has a lot of devoted followers.
The cult is attached to Trump, yes. But when he dies his followers won’t suddenly wake up from their madness and flock behind a “normal candidate”.
They will still go for the crazy ones who act and talk the way Trump did. There may not be a second Trump, but they are lost nevertheless.
But, hopefully, they won’t fall in line behind a single successor and instead splinter into a bunch of smaller, competing factions.