08-14-2021, 02:13 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.
Trump is basically an unkillable political force to his base. He could admit to screwing teenage girls and get a swastika tattooed on his forehead at the same time on live TV and the faithful would only love him more for it. Unfotunately for his sycophants, he's not proven to be overly great at helping other Republican candidates get elected. In fact, he managed to lose more than he won in both his only midterm and second general cycles. He then helped torpedo the Georgia Senate runoffs, which seemed pretty unlikely even after he lost the election. He feels zero obligation to return the loyalty that his elected backers are forced to give him by the base.
He's a far-right lib smashing meth and crack cocktail that gets chased with PCP when it starts to wear off. A seeming golden age for the base in the beginning has become a really complex problem as time wears on. They can hold the Dems off legislatively for awhile, and the high court as his major accomplishment will help as well. The tough part for the right comes when you need to find his replacement. A person for that job doesn't exist, but Trump still requires fealty to keep from crashing primaries for GOP candidates. They made a deal with a con man, and he won't let go of their party until he's dead and gone. Have fun with MJT and Co being the face of the GOP for the foreseeable future.
