Why do people act like Trump supporters are even tangentially connected to reality? They’re not.
If they want to do some awful thing, and the reason doesn’t exist, they’ll make up a reason. They’ll shoot up a pizza restaurant over a basement that doesn’t exist. They’ll storm the capital to deny the reality of an election. They do not give a fuck about reality.
They are already doing every single awful thing they want to do. Refusing to resist them because they might continue to be the exact same people they already are is so fucking stupid and infuriating.
I’m just glad he decided not to go in person to the RNC.
Because he dodged a catastrophe.
He’s not wrong. If you thought the last debate was bad for Biden imagine if there was a DeSantis or Haley up there to really hammer the age difference and speak in complete sentences. That person also gets to carry out Trump’s vision and honor his memory. Once they won the election, they also get the opportunity to pass legislation that was Trump’s dieing wish.
I think we’d be better off dealing with the illegal actions of some unhinged Trump mourners than dealing with a legal second Trump administration for 4 (or more?) years.
I disagree with this completely. I believe if he had been killed his supporters would massively ramp up the division that exists now, which would be bad. Revenge, and Retribution are terms used by trump and his followers. I think under that reality it would have triggered some awful things.
They’re doing that anyway, the only difference is that their martyr is still alive to lead them.
I’m inclined to agree.
When a sudden power vacuum appears, two things are likely to happen. One, there’s a mad scramble to grab that power and two, they’ll turn on each other in the attempt. But that’s all that seems certain.
Leadership would change hands and divisions would deepen, but they’ve been on a path of retribution and violence for a long time now. Trump’s exit wouldn’t end that.
Would love for you to expand “already doing that” in relation to what I was suggesting. I do not see political opponents being physically attacked, I do not see/hear of any armed mobs actively physically trying to ‘take their country back’.
I think that because of 1) trump is still alive and 2) this cook kid doesn’t seem to fit the narrative of their enemy has kept things ‘civil’.
Jon is completely right.
I didn’t realize that all of Trumps supporters were psychically linked and would fall like dominoes once the Great Orange One falls.
The supporters aren’t going anywhere though, even if the bullet hit. And JD Vance has essentially inherited the MAGA base now such that the movement doesn’t die with Trump anymore. Pence was never going to really do that when he was VP. But Vance could carry the torch as running mate and gave the party a more clear view of what succession looks like.
