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@BohemianBabe I don't know if 4 years will be enough to put project 2025 on hold, but it's the very least Americans can do this year. A lot of work needs to be done to prevent project 2029 though. Putting another candidate in charge of it won't take longer than that. The plan is much bigger than MAGA and more widely supported than by that cult alone. Trump's irrationality and flip flopping divides republicans at the moment. A candidate who is more consistent and outspoken about the project may even improve their chances in the next election.
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@BohemianBabe Yeah, that's my point: Trump has no actual power beyond what is granted to him by those individuals and organizations who operate from behind the scenes and want him there (Heritage & co.), he's just a spokesperson, and has no strategic value whatsoever for the party. He can be totally replaced if needed.
I hear this all the time from American liberals but I personally dissent, it's just something that they tell themselves in order to sweeten the pill and believe that the disappearance of Trump from the political scene would somewhat result in the GOP disorderly going into a breakdown, as if the organizations that prop him and that have operated for decades had no contingency plans: that's absolutely not the case. The right has no interest whatsoever in replacing Trump right now as we speak simply because it would be a cost without any useful returns (Trump is already popular and at the same time absolutely malleable and too dumb to turn against the puppeteers without sabotaging himself in the process, so where's the need to replace him?), and that's the reason why he keeps being the nominee. I'll argue none of those other nominations were a serious attempt to try to decouple the GOP from MAGA, or MAGA from Trump; it's just political theater and/or testing the ground/loyalty of the base.
All those features are completely meaningless, if the rightwing media machine wanted to re-orient their audience towards voting another candidate they would do so relatively easily, they'll just prop up the umpteenth fearmongering campaign indicating the candidate in question as "the only hope and savior" while also lauding the different features of the new candidate and giving him/her plenty of screen time, and the great majority of them will fall in line within months at most, maybe even just weeks. I'll argue they could even be reprogrammed to say they never actually supported Trump, if it was ever needed, in a surprisingly short time too.
Still to use my country as an example, Giorgia Meloni has been in politics since 2008. She was initially a member of Berlusconi's cabinet, then split and founded her own party in 2014, so exactly ten years ago. Similarly to DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Ted Cruz, the general consensus was that she made a step bigger than the leg and that she didn't have the features that would've appealed to the majority of Italian rightwingers.. until 2022. And Berlusconi's party is still getting a 10% of votes just by having "BERLUSCONI" in capital letters and with a bigger font than the logo of the party, in spite of having passed over one year ago now lol, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Trump will continue to get the GOP votes beyond his physical lifetime.
I hear this all the time from American liberals but I personally dissent, it's just something that they tell themselves in order to sweeten the pill and believe that the disappearance of Trump from the political scene would somewhat result in the GOP disorderly going into a breakdown, as if the organizations that prop him and that have operated for decades had no contingency plans: that's absolutely not the case. The right has no interest whatsoever in replacing Trump right now as we speak simply because it would be a cost without any useful returns (Trump is already popular and at the same time absolutely malleable and too dumb to turn against the puppeteers without sabotaging himself in the process, so where's the need to replace him?), and that's the reason why he keeps being the nominee. I'll argue none of those other nominations were a serious attempt to try to decouple the GOP from MAGA, or MAGA from Trump; it's just political theater and/or testing the ground/loyalty of the base.
All those features are completely meaningless, if the rightwing media machine wanted to re-orient their audience towards voting another candidate they would do so relatively easily, they'll just prop up the umpteenth fearmongering campaign indicating the candidate in question as "the only hope and savior" while also lauding the different features of the new candidate and giving him/her plenty of screen time, and the great majority of them will fall in line within months at most, maybe even just weeks. I'll argue they could even be reprogrammed to say they never actually supported Trump, if it was ever needed, in a surprisingly short time too.
Still to use my country as an example, Giorgia Meloni has been in politics since 2008. She was initially a member of Berlusconi's cabinet, then split and founded her own party in 2014, so exactly ten years ago. Similarly to DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Ted Cruz, the general consensus was that she made a step bigger than the leg and that she didn't have the features that would've appealed to the majority of Italian rightwingers.. until 2022. And Berlusconi's party is still getting a 10% of votes just by having "BERLUSCONI" in capital letters and with a bigger font than the logo of the party, in spite of having passed over one year ago now lol, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Trump will continue to get the GOP votes beyond his physical lifetime.
