titan said:
No Spin Ag said:
titan said:
Burpelson said:
MTG sees the polling numbers nationally and her internal polling numbers tell her that life after Trump starts ASAP, you will see more and more maga pivoting away from trump.
You think that is what is driving this? Very intriguing. That's a different take.
It's definitely one worth thinking about.
Everyone knows Trump's hold on the party either ends or begins to wane substantially once he's out of office. And if maga goes back away from politics (he is the one who brought many of them out to vote for the first time ever, it's been reported repeatedly on), then catering to them in Trump-fashion will no longer be needed. Things will go back to "normal" (i.e., the way things were for republicans pre-Trump).
Is this guaranteed? No, maga could find a new person to latch on to, but it'll be very hard to replace Trump because even the most maga-faithful politician out there, not named Trump, really doesn't act or talk like Trump. at best, they're like an MTG, but even then, they're still very much staying true to politi-speak.
What will be very interesting to see is if more than the original 4 vote for the release of the files. It won't shake the world up if it happens, but it will show that things just might be changing sooner than expected.
Either way, politics will be the most interesting to watch one year after Trump is out of office. Then we'll see if maga were truly there for the party and the betterment of the nation, or if they were just there for Trump and whatever he wanted so long as he tried to break things.
First on the bold, I don't think that will be tolerated. Not least because the answer to the second italics bold is that much of the Trump support was about being Anti-Left, Anti Progressive globalist flushing of Western Civ with both Marxist teachings and careless immigration. About supporting someone finally willing to push back, especially against the monolithic biased MSM. Same reason many supporting Ted Cruz initially and other "outsider" candidates of 2015 line-up.
The Republicans pre-2015 were spectacularly impotent. They hated Ted Cruz for starting a push-back that mattered and it showed. That they wanted to run Jeb to be flatttened by Hillary was transparently obvious. Then we had the Bidenite reign (the shadow coup starting 2017) and outright rule of 2021-24 showing the Left was what even the fringe alt right said, and more, let alone the worst of conservative fears. That was re-emphasized this year and especially second week of September with their violent rejection of a clear-cut election outcome and celebration of Islamist level attitudes. (In the case of Oct 7, literally).
GIVEN that, you won't see any acceptance to return to pre-2015 Republican impotence. It might not be MAGA, but could see an unabashed Nationalist party forming. Or, as we are seeing, the two halves of GenZ will clash in 1930's Weimar fashion for control.
What I do not see is return to the go-along GOP being tolerated. Unless there is massive reform on the Democrat/MSM side first by 2028.
I think the, "It might not be maga," was the main point I was trying to make. I think there will be many imitators who try to talk, act, and mean-tweet like Trump to get his maga base's votes, but the shock factor is gone. Trump is tame in comparison to how he was in his first term. Could be because he knows he's done after this term or because whatever he says and does a la "squirt lemon juice..." doesn't have the same shock value as it did a decade ago.
But, I do see your point. The GOP won't be the Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney party, but it also won't be "REEEEE!!!" maga either. I think in the end it'll fall somewhere in between, which is a good thing because it'll still be able to attract enough moderates who may be socially liberal (Women's/Gay Rights, pro legal immigrants, etc.) but are very much anti-woke (trans men in sports, etc.).
Either way, I think there's still good times ahead for the GOP, even if they're not as entertaining in the process.