MAGA is classic Cult of Personality, and there is no #2.

They’re not friendly enough for the Sith Rule of 2, so they go with a Rule of 1.

People say this like they said that Trump had no chance in 2016. It seems right, but we get repeatedly proven wrong. Honestly it sounds like one of those malicious lies meant to make us complacent. Not you, but the originator (whoever they might have been).

This guy did a bit on the notion of what happens when their cult leader is gone....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwDoQIAthNw

He simply needs to abandon Usha for Erika Kirk. It will be very popular amongst the base.

Maybe the couch he fucks is white.

Its a mild improvement to the child rapist

It was pretty clear JD overstayed his welcome before they took office. Arguably before the campaign was over. The donut shop video was a classic.

https://youtu.be/pDvkt2VkArg

I feel like Tucker is going to be active as a politician and it's going to destroy the country if we don't see a federal Mamdani-tier populist before it happens. Tucker's extremely effective at achieving rhetorical goals while also being an absolute Nazi shitstain and above all liar, who has never showed his true face to a camera.

I also have to wonder if James Donald Bowman here remembers that Trump sent a violent crowd to hang his last VP. It's a disposable job for scapegoats.

I think he’s as dangerous as any Republican candidate can be. He’s young, he’s got name recognition and has been practicing his angry MAGA act to the point of credibility for some time. Most importantly, he is learning at the master’s knee how to control the instrument that is the MAGA voting block and won’t fail to apply those lessons in spades when it’s time for him to run. I am dubious about whether Trump voters will turn out for him, but I can’t imagine anyone better positioned to make a run for them than him. Remember in Trump’s first term how we all said “oh shit, now that’s he’s shown our government to be more norms than law, what happens if someone actually smart comes along to exploit that?” JV Dunce could be that person.

But this is the closest thing to make sense. He doesn’t say meanest, but toughest. There are a lot of desperate people falling out of the modern world, seeing no way out.

Most of us would look to stop the class war, increase jobs and education, strengthen safety nets, etc

They correctly see these things as unwieldy so think a “tough guy” is the only chance. That makes some sense. Somehow he made them believe he was a tough guy rather than just a grifter. Somehow he made them believe he would act in other than personal self-interest. Most importantly he was able to stoke their outrage and identify subgroups to hate, while somehow getting them to ignore reality, history, facts

There are a lot of broken people out there. Read The Authoritarians. My guess is that a not insignificant portion of the republicons - including the voters - count as RWA. And then there are other character traits like the dark triad and so on.

Lot of cons seem to cheer the idea of hurting other people. They seem to prioritize this even over their very real needs. For instance, they fret and froth and gnash their teeth and rend their garments over "men in women's sports". They used to also spend a lot of time worried about men marrying men, too (still do, really, but hating on trans has taken center stage. For the moment).

Having men play in women's sports will affect them not in the slightest bit. Not in the least. It's the on the margins of the margins. But they'd rather see trans people hurt over almost anything else.

Same thing with having the FCC cancel TV shows on corporate media. Or mass deportation. They'd rather see liberals upset more than almost anything else in their lives.

I'm deeply concerned about the plans of the Nerd Reich.

But I'm not sure if "JD" "Vance" is going to be the guy that can convince millions of dumbfuck magachuds to punch themselves in the nuts over and over so they get to "own the libs" while Thiel and Andreesen and Musk and other total freaks get to build "Freedom Cities" so they can own people.