Trump is rapidly becoming a spent force in US Politics, he's tried anarchy, threats, childishly overwritten legal briefs but apparently he cannot overthrow an eight million vote lead and a rock solid majority in the Electoral College. Of course, this is Trump we are talking about, he'll devote every waking moment of his remaining time in office to imposing bad decisions his fellow citizens, that is when he isn't golfing, whining or abusing god-knows-what....
Lets face it, he is old, sick, crazy, toxically indebted to Cthulu Knows Who and legally exposed to an appalling degree...and his luck seems to have run out. All that makes a bad combustible combination.
So I am moving on the presumption that Trump's Star of Destiny has Set for Good, Trumpism though, that is a different matter. Trump is a would be autocrat is every way, save the most impotent, he lacks the political skills, the attention span and necessary guts to foist a vanguard totalitarian party upon us. Lord Knows though, he tried in his own bombastic erratic way. Just remember every constitutional norm Trump defied, every rule he broke, the power he worshipped and abused & any one of a number of GOP Politicians in DC and without were all taking notes.
So I think we will have more concerns about who takes up with Trump's base and who tries to run on a platform promising autocracy & tyranny, in other words who wants to run and Make Trumpism Work.
Put it another way, Mussolini was Adolf Hitler's Patient Thorough Teacher, despite being a clown, a bully, a braggart and ultimately a chump, Il Duce taught the future Reichs Chancellor the dire need for an obedient cadre of street fighters, an all up Secret Police Force, A One Party State Apparat, he also demonstrated to Hitler that the League of Nations could be defied, that one could terrorize civilian populations as a war tactics and to rule the conquered by Pure Force. At the end of the day, all Hitler Did was take what Mussolini had done and put it on a ruthlessly efficient industrialized basis; "Fascism SuperSized" so to speak.
So the issue here is, who shall be Trump's ideological successor, who is gonna end up super sizing Trumpism?
Over the short term we need to encourage all possible fissures between the Trump Base and the Institutional GOP, we also need to stir up infighting between the Trump Family (especially Junior, Ivanka and Jared Kushner) and whatever personalities may seek to inherit Trump's Mantle...thats my practical advise anyway. My impractical advise is, we are by no means out of the woods yet, we've won a respite with control of the US Presidency soon to be in safe hands, but soon enough we'll be fighting these battles again at least until our opponents crack asunder and there is a realignment in this country.
We'd better make sure they crack first.
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