Rats Fleeing the Sinking Ship

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(01-11-2021, 01:22 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: There's been a wall at large sections of that border for decades, but I would agree on the family separation part.  As for the rest, I would agree as well, but I don't see someone being as overt in that regard again for some time.

Yeah well you had walls, but 2.000 miles of wall costing 20 billions to erect and God knows what to maintain is a different thing. He also wanted Mexico to pay for it, then he wanted it to be a solar wall, then a see-through wall so people don't get killed by heavy bags of drugs thrown over it. OK it turned from radical into ridiculous at that point, but mainstream it was not, imho. But that is a side topic anyways and I actually see your point there too.
To your last sentence, I hope you are right. I admit the next person trying to go for absolute power (which Trump definitely did, in word and attempt) has to be a bit more sly and coy about it, but I wouldn't rule the attempt out at all. It seems too doable in this climate and unter this circumstances.
This, of course, is based on my belief that at least half of Trump voters would be totally fine with forbidding the democratic party and installing a one-party, strongman system.

(01-11-2021, 01:22 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Everyone at this point.  All the GOP has to do is refuse to let someone run on their ticket and they can't, votes be damned.  Political parties are private entities, they don't have to let anyone run on their ticket that they don't want to.  

I get that. But refusing to let said Trump clone as defined run would also potentially split the party. And I see GOP leadership to be afraid of that, just as they were afraid of it 4 years ago. Admittedly, Trump "only" had some red flags like birther conspiracies or a scam university or a vile rhetoric or obviously moronic statements against him back then (so less than now), but if that wasn't enough to expel him from the primaries, I wonder if the current state of affairs really would be. I doubt it based on the cowardice and bending over this party did for four years now to appease Trump and his electorate.
Maybe it cannot be Trump himself any more. But someone quite similar to Trump would potentially still rock the primaries, and if expelled by the RNC get enough support to run on his own. But I hope I am wrong on that one too, for sure.