What in your best estimate, will happen to Trump's base once he is no longer with us?
Do you think they'll go back to not being involved in politics like some of them were?
Or do you think they'll move on to someone else, or that's more moderate, like Chris
Christie, or more extreme like Lauren Bobert, I appreciate all the work you do, Pacman and
t y t as well. Um, that is a really good question because obviously Donald Trump has energized
a lot of people in this country, and given Donald Trump's age, I mean, just, you know,
statistically speaking, he's not gonna be involved in politics for a hell of a lot longer,
right? He may even be in jail by the next election. We don't know. That remains to be
seen. But either way, where do these people go? What do they do? Do they stay involved
in politics?
And to be honest, I think a lot of them do not, because these people are not your average
every day. Like, oh, I had my eyes opened to political involvement, so I'm getting out
there, I'm knocking on doors, I'm, you know, raising money. I'm, I'm banking calls, I'm
doing those things. That's not what these people are like. They're not actually politically
active. What they've done is they've tied their entire personality to being a Trump
supporter. Like, that's it, that's how they identify, you know, that, that's basically
their pronouns. Trump 2024, Trump 2020 Trump 2016, it's their entire identity. So it does
worry me that when Trump is, you know, shuffles off the mortal coil, what do these people
do? How do they react to that? Nobody is immortal. So eventually one day Donald Trump, like the
rest of us is going to die. How do these people handle that? What happens when the cult leader
dies?
Well, we've seen it throughout history. Most of the people move on. Some of them try to
resurrect the movement rarely ever works because when you have a movement based around a single
personality, you cannot replace that single personality. So I think what we'll see is
a lot of these people attempting to move on, attempting to latch onto somebody else, but
they're always gonna find themselves disappointed. I think for the most part, a lot of them just
kind of quietly disappear back again. They put their Trump signs under glass, they hang
them up in their homes instead of in their lawns, and they slowly, over the years, I
mean, this will not be an overnight process, but over the years, they'll kind of slowly
tuck all that stuff away and eventually maybe even forget about it. But I don't think they're
gonna be a force to be reckoned with as time marches forward.
Like once Trump is gone, I, I, I don't wanna say the spell is broken, but to a degree,
the spell is broken. These people are free. They can follow whoever they want. There's
no more demagogue figure there. And they'll, again, a lot of 'em will try to latch onto
somebody else, but they'll see that it's just not the same. And those will be the people
by the way, that actually get deprogrammed a little bit faster. So that's what I think
happens to these people. Again, it remains to be seen. History will will tell us, the
future will tell us, and what we're living in now will then be history. So who knows?
But I don't think they remain a strong political force once Donald Trump is outta the picture.
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