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R Mercer's avatar

Here is the thing, these people are enslaved to the MAGA movement, in the person of Donald Trump... but the operative thing here is that they are beholden to that movement, if they want to continue to hold office.

Because you have to win the primary and guess who votes most in it?

Trump is the visible expression of that movement, not the movement.

The death of Trump will not end this. It will shift the ground slightly--but the reality is that things will get MORE vicious after Trump is gone, not less, as people fight to take his place.

People think that defeating Trump or jailing Trump or Trump dying is going to "fix things. It isn't. It is bigger than him. He just happens to be the one currently riding the horse.

All of the things these people want are not going to suddenly change.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

I am definitely not saying that defeat or death of trump will 'fix things." We are burdened with MAGA for the rest of my lifetime. I am simply saying that if his actual threats are gone, some people in Congress may well be a little bit braver

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