• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      It’s rare for cults to survive after their leader dies.

      I don’t see the movement continuing. Some will rally to the new face, but many won’t.

      Even today support for Trump is slowly waning with his base growing smaller. The issue with the American system is he can lose all support today and continue. Even if dems retake a majority in the Senate it takes 2/3rds vote to remove the president.

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      10 hours ago

      Anyone smarter will damage the country less. Anyone dumber will drool on themselves while trying to speak.

      • Anyone smarter will damage the country differently. There is currently an economic force pushing the US toward a future where its citizens are separated and specific groups disenfranchised to pull money toward the ultra-wealthy and major voting blocs. Fewer overtly stupid decisions, plenty of horrors to come.

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      12 hours ago

      A number of people are clearly already trying. They are all failing miserably. Amazingly, none of them have as much charisma, at least not with such a wide audience.

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        11 hours ago

        None of them had a 14-year propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they’re “good at business.”

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      9 hours ago

      Also the condemnation of everyone celebrating will make the people bitching over everyone being indifferent to fuckface Kirk look quaint.