At some point MAGA will run out of steam. The crack-up among right wing crack-pots on the antisocial media platforms will eventually infect the rest of the movement. There are too many contradictory and competing interests that are held together by only two things: The personality cult of Trump and the obsession with marginalizing Democrats at any cost.
None of the likely successors of Trump is likely to have the charismatic magic necessary to hold the MAGA coalition together. The coalition itself is made up of groups that under normal conditions would never associate or cooperate. For example MAGA now holds both Jews and antisemites. Christian Nationalists and Catholic Integralists. Antigay and LGBTQ people. When Trump is gone the competition to take over will be fierce and diluting their power. Then the purges come along.
BUT it may be too late. So the MAGA movement fades away but the authoritarian structure remains in place. I am betting on the Christian Nationalist movement being in the best political advantage to assume power.
"Though it’s an obvious stretch to suggest that Trump’s lost his grip on congressional Republicans, the reality is that he no longer has an absolute hammerlock on their decisions."
While true, it is now apparent that Congressmen, either Republican or Democratic, no longer matter. They are irrelevant. Congress and MAGA have both entered the Death Phase. Trump has control of the US military and will use it to subjugate countries abroad and citizens at home. Consider the possibility that Trump sends the US military into Greenland for conquest of the island, Denmark and NATO respond militarily and immediately thereafter Putin attacks Poland and the Baltic states from the east. Europe is caught in a pincers attack by the US and Russia. Meanwhile Xi launches an invasion of Taiwan. Great Powers Geopolitics is at hand and WW III is upon us. MAGA? Pffffttt. They were a useful stepping stone.
What insurrection you moron? Get some professional help for your Trump Derangement Syndrome .
Vladimir Trump. Not just your average neighborhood crook.
At some point MAGA will run out of steam. The crack-up among right wing crack-pots on the antisocial media platforms will eventually infect the rest of the movement. There are too many contradictory and competing interests that are held together by only two things: The personality cult of Trump and the obsession with marginalizing Democrats at any cost.
None of the likely successors of Trump is likely to have the charismatic magic necessary to hold the MAGA coalition together. The coalition itself is made up of groups that under normal conditions would never associate or cooperate. For example MAGA now holds both Jews and antisemites. Christian Nationalists and Catholic Integralists. Antigay and LGBTQ people. When Trump is gone the competition to take over will be fierce and diluting their power. Then the purges come along.
BUT it may be too late. So the MAGA movement fades away but the authoritarian structure remains in place. I am betting on the Christian Nationalist movement being in the best political advantage to assume power.
"Though it’s an obvious stretch to suggest that Trump’s lost his grip on congressional Republicans, the reality is that he no longer has an absolute hammerlock on their decisions."
While true, it is now apparent that Congressmen, either Republican or Democratic, no longer matter. They are irrelevant. Congress and MAGA have both entered the Death Phase. Trump has control of the US military and will use it to subjugate countries abroad and citizens at home. Consider the possibility that Trump sends the US military into Greenland for conquest of the island, Denmark and NATO respond militarily and immediately thereafter Putin attacks Poland and the Baltic states from the east. Europe is caught in a pincers attack by the US and Russia. Meanwhile Xi launches an invasion of Taiwan. Great Powers Geopolitics is at hand and WW III is upon us. MAGA? Pffffttt. They were a useful stepping stone.
Whatever overall MAGA does, JfK junior’s health Dept’s vaccine fantasies vs tested proven data on vaccines for children. will:
Make America Grieve Again