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The whole world is just jumping through hoops and biding their time until Emperor Moneyman is gone.
Perhaps, but if everyone is correct and he's a symptom of much bigger issues, then holding out might be a huge waste of time.
Meh, I used to say the same. But keep in mind, Trump is a cult leader, no one can fill his shoes. One commenter on here speculated that the MAGA backlash about the Epstein files was giving some supporters a valid excuse to jump ship.
In any case, no one is stepping into Trump's shoes. Can you imagine someone like Vance commanding the type of blind obedience Trump gets?
2 issues with that:
1). Trump is the figurehead, but not the one actually designing the agenda. That's the Republican cabal that is effectively dismantling the US federal government and setting the scene for an authoritarian government. They don't need it to be a cult anymore. They have grabbed on to enough power. The Epstein list debacle shows that Trump voters (over half of the electoral race) are now malleable enough to be spun any narrative. When Trump dies, there is a replacement in line. I don't know who it is, but the major investment in fascist propaganda here in the US shows that the party as a whole is getting ready to install itself for the long term. Blind obedience is not to Trump, he's just the symbol. The obedience is to a right wing Christo-nationalism that the symbol represents.
2). Even if the Democrats win, they tend to stay the course with previous Republican administration's policies. Obama kept the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for his entire 8 years and even expanded on the Patriot Act. Biden maintained a lot of Trump's policies in place as well, especially regarding immigration and environmental regulation. Democrats try to "scalp" Republican voters from the GOP to win elections, and with the majority of Republican voters getting more entrenched into Trumpism, The Democrat party getting into power is not a guarantee of reversion to "normal".