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DDB9000's avatar

I respectfully disagree. While DeathSantis is stumbling spectacualrly, the MAGAts will NOT go away for a long time with some other evil man at the helm. I have virtually ZERO hope of that cult going away, whether PAB dies, or he goes to Prison (MY preference). My only hope is that as I'm 67 and not in good health, I won't bee around long enough to see the US under the Fourth Reich.

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If you look at other modern political movements based on a cult of personality, they never survive the death of the leader.

The one possible exception is China, but it only maintained its authoritarian system after Mao by radically altering Mao's vision and abandoning 90% of his vision.

I suppose post-Stalin USSR might be an example, but Stalin was in power a lot longer than Trump and had a lot more power.

MAGA is a current manifestation of a thread that has always existed in the US. It has self-defeating disempowerment built in. As soon as the Trump wannabes start to fail in national elections, it will likely shift into being the usual cultural movement it has always been. It's not, in its roots, political at all.

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