Donald Trump ripped into Iran and Israel for violating a ceasefire deal within hours of his triumphant announcement.
“You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing! Do you understand that?” he told reporters Tuesday morning on his way to the NATO summit in The Hague.
Heh he’ll get replaced quickly, and a new cult leader will rise. I wonder who it’ll be. Vance and trumps family aren’t popular, neither is Musk. But then again, in a dictatorship popularity isn’t important.
He’s the one that cultivated the cult of personality. Some have tried to use it, but trump still has the final say on everything. I imagine if Trump disappeared, the base would fracture.
Fracture to where?
We already know conservatives are literally incapable of voting for anyone that doesn’t have an “R” next to their names. They may not worship the next one the way they worship Daddy Trump, but they’ll all 100% vote for whoever it is.
Fracture to irreverence where the component pieces eat each other. There is no future for the party after Trump except as various fringe groups claiming to be the “true” party.
My copium is that to me it looks like it’s not the party’s cult, it’s Trump’s cult, and it will collapse without him at the helm.
Lol. I’ve been experiencing the conservative cult for far too long to believe this.
There will be another one and conservatives will flock to him. And now that the bar is permanently and extremely lowered by Trump, you can expect him to be pretty fucking bad.
You’ve been experiencing a cult of an idea. The Republican party has transformed into a cult of personality with no clear successor.
There are cults of personality that have successfully transformed into a cult of ideas. Mormons and Scientology are examples. However, in each case, the person at the center fostered a clear successor, and that successor was able to make it last in the long run by centering around ideas. Scientology still has that successor around (David Miscavige), but there isn’t really a specific person in charge of the LDS. Not in the same way. Their leadership is now interchangeable, but replacing their ideas is a harder sell.
Trump has no successor, and isn’t interested in fostering one. It’s not JD Vance; nobody respects him, including Trump. It’s not Musk; he made the mistake of trying to be more popular than the boss, and he’s not a natural-born citizen, anyway. It’s not Peter Thiel; he prefers to be the power behind the throne. It’s not any of Trump’s adult children; they’re nothing but spoiled rich kids. It’s not any of the people in his cabinet; they’re all plebes using booze and cocaine to get through the day. It’s not Tucker or Matt Walsh or any of the other right-wing commentators; they’d just eat each other trying to get on top.
In a dictatorship, the rise to power is extremely dependent on being popular. Once established though, not so much. I’m guessing JD Vance, Musk, or some other Trump family member would not have sufficient following and the whole thing would topple over, as is fairly common after dear leader dies.
Oh, no, they’ll devolve into infighting. There won’t be enough shared ideals and actions to sustain Republicans as a political force. There will be fringe groups that linger on for a while. After almost three centuries, there are still two people left claiming the Shaker tradition; that’s a group that forbids sexual relations even for procreation, so you can see how they’d have trouble gaining new members. But they’re not a religious group that anyone really cares about, either. That’s how MAGA will go eventually.
See also, Knitting Cat Lady, who is a former member of the Children of God cult, then the US Army, and then got a masters in organizational psychology around cults.
Yeah, to anyone that may be new to all this, I promise you and will bet my life savings on it, that conservatives will memory-hole Trump after he’s gone and be 100% onboard with the next criminal dunce the Republican party shits out.
I watched them do it with Bush Jr. We know how stupid conservatives are. That isn’t changing anytime soon. They have not, nor will they ever, learn anything.