sorry start speculating so early, but I'm really curious
like, who the hell will Republicans run next? Their Trump card is used up (fuck you I won't apologize for that). I don't really see anyone else with his broad appeal to take the mantel. Like, maybe some figure in this upcoming administration emerges, but... I don't really see how. Seems like they're stuck running just another party apparatchik.
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The liberals in the walls whisper, they say "Trump is gonna install himself as lifelong dictator! Vance will inherit the throne! It's the end of US democracy!!!"
i remember when my grandpa said the dems were gonna crown Obama as king.
And in that case... Dems might actually feel like they have to do a real campaign, rather than just bang the "orange fascist" gong a bunch more.
If it's not Vance, it'll be some other Koch/Mercer/Theil-backed candidate. They've got plenty of them out there building up careers.
It's not so much that I don't think there aren't other's who are eager to take is place, it's that I don't think they have the television zeal to satisfy his audience.
Hmm, we'll see. I think there's so many grifters out there cutting their teeth and four years for them to openly go mask off that I doubt it's gonna be an issue. A lot of the dc assholes started toning down their rhetoric over Jan 6 and all the legal cases. Now that's no longer an issue, I think the next four years are gonna be like some fucked up right wing reality show to get his blessing. And of course the media will happily give them a platform while clutching their pearls.