Trump dying would suck. The GOP gets to sweep all this Impeachment stuff under the rug and pretend that it never happened. Can’t cover that shit up.
The idea of some old GOP type getting the nomination is laughable. Deplorables have been freebasing unadulterated racism and xenophobia for years. Some old fuck like Pence or Romney ain’t gonna do. Donald Trump has rewritten the GOP playbook on presidential elections. All that’s gonna happen is a smarter, more savvy version of Trump will get the nom because if that person doesn’t he’ll run third-party and crush the GOP.
One of the major difficulties the GOP experienced in their relationship with Trump was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
They’ll try either way but will succeed if he’s dead.
Truth is that most people just want to go through life not thinking about politics. If Trump is gone, then a lot of people who aren’t viscerally affected will go back to not giving a shit about the state of the world like they did pre Trump.
I would think Ivanka has a better chance. Remember how she was supposed to be the moderating force for her father?
There was an interesting article on this a while back about how they wanted it to be Ivanka, but Don Jr is the one who is getting the people at the rally’s worked up into a frenzy and he’s basically imitating his father’s mannerisms and such. He’s like a younger non-senile Trump who actually enjoys hunting and fishing and shit, he connects with the base very well.
“He didn’t know much about the issue and was just doing it for Melania and Ivanka,” the official said, referring to the first lady and the president’s daughter.
Ivanka presents as nice. That’s not what they want. If they support a woman it’s Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, judge Judy, judge Poirrot or whoever.
Yeah IDK, I could see the GOP doing the same song and dance where everyone embraces the person who gives them the means to deny the racist impact of the things they say/do while otherwise being more racist than ever
Trump really is the worst of both worlds. He has moronic views on almost everything, but on the rare occasions he has a flash of common sense and accidentally holds a correct opinion, he’s a total pushover when the powers that be want to shove him back in line (like when he said “well maybe we should just take everybody’s assault rifles” and the NRA poked him with a cattle prod and had him reversing course the next day).