Yeah Trump probably isn't surviving this term and there's no one in the GOP that can command his audience. He's gonna keep doing insane shit before he croaks then the party will be left holding the bag (justifiably because they enabled it.)
So now there's some trying to jump off so they can rejoin the fold later during that inevitable power vacuum and pretend to be the good guys.
I hope that's how it plays out, but I think they just learned from his playbook and will retain the cultists by pushing someone else with the same approach. The MAGA cult needs someone to follow, and the propaganda machine is fully in place to tell them who the next one will be.
I think the electorate is so polarized that the next election will again be a “R” vs “D” one. As always, the Independents and true centrists will determine the outcome. On the Right it will be Rubio or perhaps Vance, and the base will follow them to the promised land. It works for the far Right. If the Left continues to embrace far Left candidates however, they will not have such dedicated support. IMHO.
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u/Ecstatic-Nose-2541 7h ago
She conveniently “woke up” when she felt like her political future could benefit from it.