After an embarrassing stumble on linking the wrong article, I’ve located the link to the right one:
Makes a persuasive case that the Republican party is finally seeing Trump for what he is (6 in 10 say he’s a criminal), and is abandoning ship. Why they continued to embrace him for as long as they did, I have no idea, and is another topic for another thread.
But it also brings a follow-up question: Is Trumpism viable without an effective Trump?
I tend to think not.
Whether you love him or hate him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, you have to acknowledge that Donald Trump galvanized a lot of people. I don’t think that sort of personal cachet is transferable.
So if Trump‘s influence ends because enough people finally wake up to his true nature, or he has a final meltdown, or just dies (he’s 76 and significantly overweight), I think Trumpism ends when Trump’s personal effectiveness does — however that may come to pass.
There will probably be a small, but devoted, core of followers — shoot, Roy Moore and even Adolf Hitler still have supporters. But the group will be too small to constitute an effective political force.
So I’m interested to see what other TF posters think. Regardless of whether you agree or not, why do you feel the way you do?
Increasingly abandoned and isolated, will Trump burn it all down?
Trump has governed his Republican squires through fear and domination since taking over the party in 2016.
thehill.com
Makes a persuasive case that the Republican party is finally seeing Trump for what he is (6 in 10 say he’s a criminal), and is abandoning ship. Why they continued to embrace him for as long as they did, I have no idea, and is another topic for another thread.
But it also brings a follow-up question: Is Trumpism viable without an effective Trump?
I tend to think not.
Whether you love him or hate him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, you have to acknowledge that Donald Trump galvanized a lot of people. I don’t think that sort of personal cachet is transferable.
So if Trump‘s influence ends because enough people finally wake up to his true nature, or he has a final meltdown, or just dies (he’s 76 and significantly overweight), I think Trumpism ends when Trump’s personal effectiveness does — however that may come to pass.
There will probably be a small, but devoted, core of followers — shoot, Roy Moore and even Adolf Hitler still have supporters. But the group will be too small to constitute an effective political force.
So I’m interested to see what other TF posters think. Regardless of whether you agree or not, why do you feel the way you do?