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minus-squareAAA@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 days agoThe cult is attached to Trump, yes. But when he dies his followers won’t suddenly wake up from their madness and flock behind a “normal candidate”. They will still go for the crazy ones who act and talk the way Trump did. There may not be a second Trump, but they are lost nevertheless.
minus-squareMesophar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoBut, hopefully, they won’t fall in line behind a single successor and instead splinter into a bunch of smaller, competing factions.
The cult is attached to Trump, yes. But when he dies his followers won’t suddenly wake up from their madness and flock behind a “normal candidate”.
They will still go for the crazy ones who act and talk the way Trump did. There may not be a second Trump, but they are lost nevertheless.
But, hopefully, they won’t fall in line behind a single successor and instead splinter into a bunch of smaller, competing factions.