MAGA is a Cult of Personality, and won’t survive Trump’s death. The administration will try to hold it together, but it will very quickly devolve into ferocious backstabbing, leaks, allegations, accusations, etc. A lot of people are important to Trump who will be useless to Vance, like Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller, and they won’t give up their power easily. It will take no longer than 48 hours for it to start to fall apart.
Dems would be wise to stoke the fire with questions like “Are you going to let him say that about you?”
The street level MAGAs will instantly start spreading conspiracy theories about who killed him. At first they’ll blame liberals, but soon they’ll turn on the new Vance administration, especially if Dems encourage it.
At the same time, every Sociopathic Oligarch will take advantage of the societal chaos, and use whatever mechanisms they have to make money.
If you think things are crazy now, just wait until Trump croaks.
Not just conspiracies about who killed him, there’s going to be a set who insist he isn’t really dead, he’s just gone into hiding against the deep state or something equally silly.
This is my last hope for America as we know it: MAGAts destroy themselves once their Christ figure is gone. It could devolve as you describe, but it might also be just the lull to prompt recovery.
MAGA is a Cult of Personality, and won’t survive Trump’s death. The administration will try to hold it together, but it will very quickly devolve into ferocious backstabbing, leaks, allegations, accusations, etc. A lot of people are important to Trump who will be useless to Vance, like Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller, and they won’t give up their power easily. It will take no longer than 48 hours for it to start to fall apart.
Dems would be wise to stoke the fire with questions like “Are you going to let him say that about you?”
The street level MAGAs will instantly start spreading conspiracy theories about who killed him. At first they’ll blame liberals, but soon they’ll turn on the new Vance administration, especially if Dems encourage it.
At the same time, every Sociopathic Oligarch will take advantage of the societal chaos, and use whatever mechanisms they have to make money.
If you think things are crazy now, just wait until Trump croaks.
Not just conspiracies about who killed him, there’s going to be a set who insist he isn’t really dead, he’s just gone into hiding against the deep state or something equally silly.
200% true, if he dies in office he becomes immortal
This is my last hope for America as we know it: MAGAts destroy themselves once their Christ figure is gone. It could devolve as you describe, but it might also be just the lull to prompt recovery.