08-01-2020, 07:55 PM
(08-01-2020, 09:19 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: I certainly dont believe Trumpism dies with Trump's presidency. He has a cult like following that certainly lives up to the whole "I can shoot a dude on 5th Ave and not lose a vote" mantra.
However, should Trump lose emphatically in November, the GOP is going to be at a major crossroads. They will either have to double down on Trumpism, further cementing Trumpism as the GOP platform, or disown him and alienate a very vocal minority of their electorate, and what will be a very vocal scorned ex president.
It will be interesting to see. I'm of the opinion that there are more people that simply won't vote for a D and want to see the party move to normalcy rather than people who would bend over and spread 'em for Trump given the chance
I may be biased due to my geographical location in the US (the South), but I don't see MAGA Republicans as a minority at all. Almost everyone I know and deal with on a daily basis identifies as a Republican, and with the exception of maybe 3 orf them, they're all Trumpers to the core. A good chunk of them wear Trump shirts/hats like a fan of a sports franchise would wear colors.
The Republican Party in my eyes and in the eyes of many members of the party itself is the part of Trump, ie right wing populist authoritarianism. They will not accept any result in this election other than a Trump win, regardless of what people like Mitch tell them. There's no pretending that most of the party didn't bend over for Trump, because most of the party will still be bent over long after he's gone, should he lose. Even the ones who claim they didn't like him or didn't vote for him have spent the last 3.5 years defending and justifying everything he's done/said. I won't forget, and neither will most people. It's going to hang around their necks for a good decade. All of them.
I look at Trump like a big coke bender for the party. They felt invincible. He was the wrecking ball that got everything they ever wanted through in terms of tax cuts and deregulation. Now the bender is quite possibly ending. The dealer's been busted, and the actions of the last 4 years look a lot less awesome than they did when they were happening.
Al lot can happen between now and Nov 3rd, perhaps moreso given the pandemic and volatile political climate. The Dems have a boring candidate that says dumb stuff form time to time, and the right thinks that will be enough to make people want 4 more years of this shit show. I doubt it, but I think they'd better hope so. The party is in for some shit with or without Trump winning in November, but it will be a messy fight for control of the party if he loses.
