Yeah, Vance is not gonna grab MAGA after Trump is gone. He’s neither charismatic or extreme enough for it. I am expecting MAGA to put out their own candidate that will somehow be worse than Trump.
Also Vance saying he’s gonna wait until after midterms is him waiting to see how much the GOP will get fucked or not. If there is a blue wave in the midterms he may not want to throw his hat in the ring and just get humiliated if that wave keeps the momentum going until the presidential elections.
I am expecting MAGA to put out their own candidate that will somehow be worse than Trump.
If Trump doesn’t explicitly name an heir, it will be half a dozen different figures vying to replace him, all of them tearing at each other’s throats as they do. It might be enough to tear their support base to pieces as well, with loyalists of one faction unwilling to ever support the head of a different faction, even after the outcome becomes clear.
Yeah. Though who would Trump even name as an heir? I think he hates Vance so I don’t think it will be him. One of his kids? None of them really strike me as able to take over.
Given his selfishness, if he did name an heir, it would either be one of his kids (so he can continue to see his name on things) or it would be someone he thought he could exert complete control over and basically stay in power with them as a puppet.
(And for the latter purpose, someone obscure, currently barely known would be ideal, someone who owes everything to Trump and has no independent base of their own. But also needs to be somebody with deep financial ties to the Trump family and a lot of debts to be paid off. Oh, and preferably also involved in the whole Epstein situation, to help control them through blackmail.)
Also there’s the factor being forgotten, Trump invigorated a largely inactive section of the population who will almost certainly go back to being inactive at least in part once he is either dead or indisposed. No way in hell is Vance keeping those people active.
Candace and Tucker are already on it and have captured the “early mover” 20% segment. These were the first to come to Trump (as a reaction to main stream republicanism), and the first to leave Trump. It took a little while for main stream republicanism to fully adopt Trumpism.
Yeah, Vance is not gonna grab MAGA after Trump is gone. He’s neither charismatic or extreme enough for it. I am expecting MAGA to put out their own candidate that will somehow be worse than Trump.
Also Vance saying he’s gonna wait until after midterms is him waiting to see how much the GOP will get fucked or not. If there is a blue wave in the midterms he may not want to throw his hat in the ring and just get humiliated if that wave keeps the momentum going until the presidential elections.
If Trump doesn’t explicitly name an heir, it will be half a dozen different figures vying to replace him, all of them tearing at each other’s throats as they do. It might be enough to tear their support base to pieces as well, with loyalists of one faction unwilling to ever support the head of a different faction, even after the outcome becomes clear.
Yeah. Though who would Trump even name as an heir? I think he hates Vance so I don’t think it will be him. One of his kids? None of them really strike me as able to take over.
Given his selfishness, if he did name an heir, it would either be one of his kids (so he can continue to see his name on things) or it would be someone he thought he could exert complete control over and basically stay in power with them as a puppet.
(And for the latter purpose, someone obscure, currently barely known would be ideal, someone who owes everything to Trump and has no independent base of their own. But also needs to be somebody with deep financial ties to the Trump family and a lot of debts to be paid off. Oh, and preferably also involved in the whole Epstein situation, to help control them through blackmail.)
Also there’s the factor being forgotten, Trump invigorated a largely inactive section of the population who will almost certainly go back to being inactive at least in part once he is either dead or indisposed. No way in hell is Vance keeping those people active.
Candace and Tucker are already on it and have captured the “early mover” 20% segment. These were the first to come to Trump (as a reaction to main stream republicanism), and the first to leave Trump. It took a little while for main stream republicanism to fully adopt Trumpism.