Clyde_Style wrote:Sedale Threatt wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:I expect Rudy to be Don Jr's campaign manager in 2024.
Have said this a million times, but one of the worst things about Trump's ascent -- and there are so many options to choose from -- is that, not only are we going to have to put up with him until he finally has a coronary and drops dead, but his wretched spawn as well. Failson No. 1 will be doing a Dollar Store impression of his father for the next three to four decades. And we've already proven that we're stupid enough as a country that he's probably going to get elected at some point.
Don Jr. doesn't have the weird gravitas for the lemmings of his father so the shine of association may give him some weight with the dregs, but Jr. has an even worse drug problem than his father at a fairly young age. Plus he is savagely stupid like his father. I don't think he'll go very far
I'm in complete disagreement with this whole board though
I'm confident the Trump brand will be worthless in the not too distant future, both commercially and politically. It may keep the lights on in a knock-off Rush Limbaugh version of shock jocking for Jr. but that's all it will amount to
The GOP will not go back to Trump and he or his spawn will lack the same public support to steal the nomination again. They're finished
I'm not sure how it will play out. I do agree that Trump has a unique, goon charisma. Kind of like the anti-Obama, or Bizarro Superman. He taps into the GOP's greasy id in a way standard conservative villains like Mitt Romney and W just don't. So I agree there -- political figures like him don't come around very often (thankfully). And I do think his commercial brand is pretty much f'd. (It's going to be awesome watching what happens as all those loans come due here in the next few years.)
But I definitely don't see his political clout waning. He just had 73 million ostensibly adult humans vote for him, and very, very few of them were holding their noses. Indeed, they overwhelmingly, enthusiastically like what he's selling, so I have no hope that he's going to just quietly fade into the background and meditate on the complete failure that was his presidency. And I don't think there's anything the larger GOP can do about it. Not when all of their voters are even more strongly his voters.
So while I like your scenario a lot more, we'll have to see what happens.
