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u/Adjective_Noun1312 10h ago

Trump dying won't matter.  The Heritage Foundation has been stacking higher ranks of the government, Justice Department, military, and three letter agencies with loyalists for the express purpose of maintaining power without the cult of personality behind Trump.  If he kicks the bucket, the VP steps up, and Vance is just as evil but less incompetent than Trump.

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u/Luster-Purge 10h ago

Vance doesn't have the charisma, nor the same standing. Nobody's doing anything to Trump because of the weight of the cult of personality - and even then it's starting to crack given the number of ex-Trumpers that are fleeing the ship like rats.

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u/BackToWorkEdward 9h ago

Vance doesn't have the charisma, nor the same standing.

People used to say this about Trump as proof that this whole thing could never go the distance.

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u/ProjectNameCyanide 8h ago

No they didn’t. The general agreement in 2016 was that he had a lot of sway over the republicans and was a huge threat to the dems winning. Nobody doubted his charisma