I don’t think you’ll find anyone with Trump’s “charisma” that quickly who would appeal to the MAGA crowd in the same way. Of course, I could be wrong about that.
His speech patterns and dialogue match up surprisingly well with Jim Jones of the famous Jonestown Massacre. Once somebody like that has a following, it doesn’t matter how crazy he gets, the diehard believers will literally die hard for the guy.
The first campaign drew the cult together from a cult that was already there (a groomed voter base who will vote Republican no matter who) and the first term bonded them together against an enemy (everybody with common sense) while the Republican party and the entire media insulated them from how bad he is. There were some people who saw what he did and turned away - he got less votes this time around than he did last time, and that’s even with the questions of election interference that keep cropping up - but that just means that the people left are the crazies who would defend him even if he personally started shooting up schools.
American politics is so screwed up that most people have little clue of what exactly happens in this country. A coworker of mine just the other day was effectively saying that daddy Trump had to hurt us because big-meanie Biden ruined the government deficit.
Because they were told that Trump would protect them against all of the bad things that Trump’s backers were blasting into their brains 24/7 via social media and partisan ‘news’ organizations.
Ignorance and disinformation did way more work that Trump’s charisma which is, as you’ve said, lacking
There’s a part of me that agrees, trump has a wild hold on the maga crowd. Buuuuut I also have trouble thinking of something that would make it easier for some non trump to channel that same energy than an assassination.
I think there would be a civil war first and then a new system would be established if the USA didn’t splinter. It would initially be worse in terms of violence, but in the long term the fascism that Trump imposes will be more brutal.
However, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. would take direct advantage of these circumstances.
It’s all just absolute shit.
Someone else just as bad would replace him. It’s supported by public sentiment, he was voted in.
I don’t think you’ll find anyone with Trump’s “charisma” that quickly who would appeal to the MAGA crowd in the same way. Of course, I could be wrong about that.
Trump has as much charisma as a chewed bubble gum. I don’t understand why that many people voted him. Twice.
His speech patterns and dialogue match up surprisingly well with Jim Jones of the famous Jonestown Massacre. Once somebody like that has a following, it doesn’t matter how crazy he gets, the diehard believers will literally die hard for the guy.
The first campaign drew the cult together from a cult that was already there (a groomed voter base who will vote Republican no matter who) and the first term bonded them together against an enemy (everybody with common sense) while the Republican party and the entire media insulated them from how bad he is. There were some people who saw what he did and turned away - he got less votes this time around than he did last time, and that’s even with the questions of election interference that keep cropping up - but that just means that the people left are the crazies who would defend him even if he personally started shooting up schools.
American politics is so screwed up that most people have little clue of what exactly happens in this country. A coworker of mine just the other day was effectively saying that daddy Trump had to hurt us because big-meanie Biden ruined the government deficit.
Because they were told that Trump would protect them against all of the bad things that Trump’s backers were blasting into their brains 24/7 via social media and partisan ‘news’ organizations.
Ignorance and disinformation did way more work that Trump’s charisma which is, as you’ve said, lacking
There’s a part of me that agrees, trump has a wild hold on the maga crowd. Buuuuut I also have trouble thinking of something that would make it easier for some non trump to channel that same energy than an assassination.
I think there would be a civil war first and then a new system would be established if the USA didn’t splinter. It would initially be worse in terms of violence, but in the long term the fascism that Trump imposes will be more brutal. However, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. would take direct advantage of these circumstances. It’s all just absolute shit.
It would create a power vacuum, and the traditional constitutional democratic norms and processes have already been destroyed.
So it would be a literal bloodbath.
And it probably would not end well for America.
just have to kill the next one and the next one until someone who can see the pattern steps up