08-13-2021, 03:00 PM
(08-13-2021, 02:48 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I think the Trump stuff is going to be like a shooting star, where it is very present for a relatively short amount of time. I say this because right now we see politicians who are beholden to towing the MAGA lines and validating the MAGA conspiracies but when you look at republicans who aren't beholden to Trump and his fanbase at the moment, such as the SC nominees, they are voting against the election being rigged and mask mandates being communism, etc.
The thing with Trump is that he isn't exactly a symmetrical force, that is that candidates he endorses aren't necessarily going to get the full-force support Trump would get just because he endorsed them...yet if you don't parrot his specific conspiracy stuff you'll almost certainly lose or get removed.
So I see it less as the party of Trump and more like the party where at the moment you have to agree with what Trump is selling people, unless you aren't in a position where you are up for reelection in which case you can speak and rule as you see fit and it doesn't matter if they call you a communist. Trump and his fanbase keep calling out his SC nominees for refusing to back his nonsense, but what can they do about it? Eventually Trump isn't going to be able to have this stranglehold on the party...eeeeventually.
yeah the bolded part is more or less what I was trying to say. You said it more succinctly.
As for the rest. i agree.
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