Kit Malone
In order to stay within guardrails of sanity, the U.S. system relies on a population of voters who understand and value certain ideas about collective civic duty, democratic norms, fairness, and civil liberty.
What Trump has shown is that an increasingly large number of U.S. voters neither understand nor value those things at all.
Even if he disappeared today, that problem wouldn't leave with him.
Jessπ§ββοΈ
@thekitmalone
Yes and no. While Trump has radicalized and motivated a lot of people on the far right, and those people would still be radicalized even if he dropped dead tomorrow, they won't necessarily be as motivated and neatly fall in line behind the next strong man in line. You can look at many far right leaders across the world, and after the leader themselves dies or is removed, the power struggles that follow often fracture, divide, and demotivate the movement.
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