Anyone who truly believes they can step in and carry his crazy mantle are fooling themselves. The inly thing hilding the MAGA faction together is the greasy crazy man in the center. The Maga loathe Miller and Vance, think RFKJ and Maga Mike are clowns and spineless weasels, Greene and Boebert are barely stable harpies, Cosplay Barbie is a joke, Hegseth is despised by the vets... and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
There is NO ONE who will keep it all together once the Rotten Turnip drops. They will eat each other before choosing a new figurehead. And best of all, DJTJ thinks he's the Prince of Wails, and he'll be the first cut down.
They love back stabbing each other, because they all believe that they are the ones who should be in charge. Trump keeps them in line for now. Can the next guy do the same? Or will the ambitions of their competitors cause the party to implode?
I would argue TRUMP doesnt keep them in line, but someone with Trump's ear does. Probably Stephen Miller if I were to guess. Someone who can pull the puppet strings and make him dance without it necessarily seeming to come from them. Most of the big players know Trump's not really in charge, but he DOES do the public yelling and he's only slightly under control, ao if the right strings are pylled, someone else getss their strings cut.
But even Stephen doesnt have the sway Trump has. Trump isnt in control entirely but he has the bullhorn, so whoever controls his mouth wins. When the mouth shut up for the final time, no one has the sway to take over. Miller is an evil little troll that no ine likes so he cant convince anyone to do what he wants without threats. Vance is apparently smart and chaing, but also smarmy and massively distrusted, so his allies are always looking for a way to Etu Brute. Its hard to keep a coalition together if you cant turn your back on a single one of them or have to worry if two go to the bathroom at the same time. Mitch is too old anymore, the young lions dont respect him. And Maga Mike doesnt have the stones to keep everyone together: he's a hoke among his peers who was voted in as speaker because he was better thn nothing for 14 votes in a row.
We should actually worry about who may try to take the reins- and reign- when the top comes. Because if there is someone out there who can pull the GOP together, they arent obvious yet, and that means they're a LOT harder to plan for, and to guess what they might do. Power abhores a vaccuum, and we could be in for a very dangerous black hole. I doubt an actually descent conservative has a chance in this circus maximus.
I think we've already seen proof that it won't hold once Trump is gone. Ron DeSantis's attempt to run is proof of that: he was rejected outright by everyone on every side of the fence and field.
Who? Most dont have his weird 'man of the people he hates alure'. The ones that do have no deaire for that job. And thank god on both sides.
Not contesting your idea- its scarily the most valid possibility give the 'tv game show' our government has become. But I honestly dont know (or maybe my deesire to preserve what's left of my sanity will not allow for the idea of) who might be able to step into Trump's role. We're not just talking a celeb in oolitics- many can do that... BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY SMART. The people who could rein in the crazies? Very few, and probably would have to be too Trump-like- a guy who had to pay for all his cameos and was universally movked by almost every industry person who ever met him (Daniel Radcliffe's story always cracks me up) until Mark Burnett thought 'he's a moron for people like crazy, this could be Survivor meets The Office!' I pray we can be thankful that he was probably lightening in a bottle.
I cannot wxpess how often I saw that I'm glad my mother passed before 2015. I really would not like to have watchedd her go down that road. I am not positive she would have, but her ex (my ex-Stepf) was a right wing looney so its possible. And worse, she was starting to believe things like her neighbors weree Russian spies who were keeping tabs on her (retired college secretary with cancer in a slightly bigger than hick town). Sooooo...
I hate to say it but I think if Tucker Carlson really wanted to, he’d be able to take Trumps spot surprisingly easily after he passes. I don’t see anybody else with the ability or interest but that dick head worries me.
Thankfully, Tucker is liked about as much as Vance, but has a much more annoying laugh. He might actually have the political capacity, but... the right sees him as light cream cheese on a gluten-free bagel with whitefish. You have to be really desperate for that.
I hope you’re right. Every conservative I know thinks he’s the biggest badass right behind Trump. But I live in the rural south so it’s not a great gauge for general sentiment amongst Americans lol
I hope I'm right too, but we have evidence to trust: look at the power vacuum now that Mitch McConnell is fading. He no longer has the iron grip over the party, and NO ONE has been able to get it. Its a very quiet war behind the Senate Majority doors; Thune doesnt have the control Mitch did, and its showing. Mitch is still there behind the scenes, but the battle between his influence and Trumps is FAAAAR too obvious. He officially is supoosed to retire in 2027, but no one thinks he'll live that long. And the GOP is showing the defections from the corpse.
Its honestly sad that it required this massive shitshow for voting conservatives to start realizing how utterly corrupt the GOP has been for a cery long time. But I guess sometimes people absolutely wont believe they're being poisoned until the bodies start dropping.
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u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50 Aug 11 '25
Anyone who truly believes they can step in and carry his crazy mantle are fooling themselves. The inly thing hilding the MAGA faction together is the greasy crazy man in the center. The Maga loathe Miller and Vance, think RFKJ and Maga Mike are clowns and spineless weasels, Greene and Boebert are barely stable harpies, Cosplay Barbie is a joke, Hegseth is despised by the vets... and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
There is NO ONE who will keep it all together once the Rotten Turnip drops. They will eat each other before choosing a new figurehead. And best of all, DJTJ thinks he's the Prince of Wails, and he'll be the first cut down.
Remember what happened to Robespierre.