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72 hours, maybe 7 weeks or even 4 months. It is a certainty that like George W Bush, they will simply act like he never existed.
It is easy for them to forget the creepy cult-like devotion that they had for "W"
After the economy collapsed and Bush was gone, he was seldom acknowledged by Republican pundits. The same will happen with Trump. In fact I suspect that it will be even more extreme. It will become he who has no name and should not be mentioned. NO questions about Trump will receive a response.
But authoritarians will need a new "Strong Leader" who will "Shake up the establishment", and stop the move to creeping socialism that can only be accomplished by continuing on a rocket sled to the far right.
Who will the next leader of the GOP suicide cult?
Nevilledog
(51,120 posts)Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)But I doubt he plays any significant roll. They'll probably break out George P. Bush.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)That they can't even invite to the next convention.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The woman losing her shit over Harry Potter as a wizard was priceless...so is the gibberish spouting "speaking in tongues"...but those kids...man do I pity them.
Doodley
(9,093 posts)struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)TlalocW
(15,384 posts)You disappear after you're defeated or your time is up. It benefits them both. The GOP gets to move on and claim the next guy as hand-chosen by God to get all the stuff done that God had ordained the previous guy to do, and the previous guy retires and keeps his activities on the down-lo, maybe talking to various conservative groups for a nice fee, etc. Our people seem to start foundations to help people and thus stay in the limelight a little longer.
TlalocW
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)whether disgraced or not.
Reality:
* During each and every GOP presidential run, GOP operatives score huge incremental victories toward dismantling the good parts of our government. They always do damage beyond what we can repair in adjacent terms and good luck these days with raising taxes.
* Each of the GOP ex-presidents get to enjoy the life of a king until death, no matter what we think of them.
KY
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)I think of that story, dont remember if it was a book or not. They sent a traitor to sea and forever wouldnt let him touch land anywhere. It think it was done via the navy and theyd just transfer him from ship to ship. I think they didnt even allow him to hear news about the country. It was fiction of course. I guess you couldnt really make that work nowadays and the part about being disavowed by your homeland wouldnt really bother trump but cutting him off from all news especially anything about him would be good. Actually that would be good in the case of him going to prison, let him know that no one knows or cares about him at all.
DSandra
(999 posts)There is a clear pattern...
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)that is the pre ordained excuse trumpists are going to use some time down the road.
Bullshit. You know who he is NOW, and have just been looking the other way all the time. You watched it happen in real time day after day after day.
I'm going to get right up in the face of every trumpist who pulls that shit down the line.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for the potential drop-aways you're talking about to separate themselves emotionally and morally from the Southern conservative mentality that's taken over the Republican Party.
Remember, the authoritarians on the far right are a minority who can't elect anyone beyond local office on their own. Ideally, their remnants would retreat to their own bitter little factional box again.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)just as Obama was blamed for Bush crash and never given credit for recovery
malaise
(269,049 posts)Lame ducks will be more relevant by then
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)nm
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Not saying their mass social psychopathy couldn't continue, but effects of anything have a way of effecting change.
"The Only Thing That Remains Constant Is Change." Scientific American quoting Heraclitus 2500 years of roiling change later.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)I can't see that anyone would want to donate money to set it up; once Trump is out of office, his influence is nil, apart from the QAnon types (who will mostly move on to some new obsession anyway.) There will be an awful lot of "Trump, you say? Was he on TV in the noughties? Trashy real estate developer in the 80s? Never met him, myself. No one had a good word to say about him."
I don't think he has any real friends who'd give money without expecting something in return. And the family will be saving their money for lawyers. And might stop him from using Trump Corporation money on it.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)and no way to rid themselves of that because We WILL NEVER LET THEM