While Republican lawmakers are publicly rallying around former President Donald Trump, in private many of them are reportedly hoping he goes down in defeat to Vice President Kamala Harris this fall.Politico's Jonathan Martin reports that "the most fervent private debate" among Republicans right now ...
  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Just imagine how easy their life would be if that assassin had succeeded. They would have a martyr that would rally their supporters and the undecideds behind them, and they wouldn’t have to deal with Trumps outsized ego anymore. I’m so glad that guy did not succeed, that would’ve been the best case scenario for the GOP.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      351·
      2 months ago

      Mmm. Nah.

      GOP is going to have an evergreen issue post Trump that is directly related to their dependence on conspiratorial thinking for base maintenance. Because they rely on it so heavily for their own propaganda, there will be a significant cohort of their base for whom “Elvis never died”.

      And even with out that, the one truly pure signal we have from about 10 years of Trump engaging in electoralism, is that there is no other Trump. His weird ability to upset polls does not translate to other candidates in a meaningful way, because he’s never been building a movement that can be handed off; he’s only ever been building himself up. When he is gone, all of that goes with him.

      Republicans will be in a multi-decade long rebuilding phase post Trump.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Republicans will be in a multi-decade long rebuilding phase post Trump.

        shouldn’t be too difficult with trumps corrupt muppet scotus rewriting all the laws in GOP’s favor

        but then again the GOP is stupid AF so who knows

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          111·
          2 months ago

          My prediction is that the slime over at the Heritage foundation will co-opt the Democratic party to force them turn to the right.

          I mean look at the last night of the convention. It was basically a Republican showcase.

          • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            I’d be on board with the GOP collapsing in on itself, the democrats shifting further to the right, and a new far-left party popping up to contest them. Basically a reset of the Overton window. I’m here for it.

      • RinseDrizzle@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I mean… I think the “Elvis never died” crowd might feel differently if Elvis was shot in the head during a televised moment in front of hundreds/thousands of eye witnesses. Harder to argue with missing skull & brain matter than an unceremonious “off-screen” death. Feels like they would have been able to actually whip up a frenzy with the martyr angle, especially if shooter was convenient for demonizing demographics.

        That would have been the craziest footage of all time had it hit the mark. Wild how quick that story faded into the background.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          You underestimate the absolute idiocy of Trump conspiratorialists. If the man had his head blown off on live television, they would either claim that it was a body double, and he’s hiding underground to avoid another assassination attempt by “the Hollywood elite”… or that he faked his own death so he could go undercover and bust Harris’ pedophilia ring.

          I wish I were exaggerating. The Q-ultists are unfathomably brainwashed.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 months ago

          I guess what I really mean is that I expect Trumpers to be writing his name in for decades to come. When he’s not on the ballot. When he’s dead and buried. When he’s actively telling people to not vote for him.