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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

If dear leader was to kick the bucket, would his supporters rally behind Vance?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Between dipshit conservatives who worship General Lee and dipshit conspiracy theorists who still insist Elvis is alive, I'm sure idiots will be insisting Trump is still alive long after I'm dead

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don Jr. will be apppointed next.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don Jr is Frank Sinatra Jr - nobody cares.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't really think it's safe to say that. I think enough Trump supporters would gladly just shift to the next Trump name and not think twice about it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I doubt it very much. These morons love Trump, and Trump alone. I've seen no evidence that they see Jr, or anybody else, as a worthy substitute. Some will go there, but most won't. The Right will be splintered badly as various factions and ambitious candidates fight for control.

    It will be entertaining for a while.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My guess is that Stephen Miller knows that Vance can't hold three pieces of paper together and will try to ramp up martial law to retain power. Which they don't have the manpower to do without the actual military who likely would not follow such orders. The national guard would likely start doing malicious compliance at best and ICE flat out doesn't have enough people to control blocks of a city let alone the country. I can't even imagine where things would go from there.

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