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I'm willing to bet Vance doesn't get the blind worship that Trump gets from his followers.
If Trump goes down via something like the 25th amendment, or like, assassination, I can see the base rallying around Vance. But left to their own devices to pick a successor? Idk. The whole "Trump 2028" meme, as much as it's supposed to "trigger the libs," kinda shows a lack of confidence or at least excitement regarding Vance, and I can envision a contested primary, especially as things continue going towards shit and they have to find someone or something to blame.
Personally, I suspect that we've entered a period of one term presidents. There are systemic issues that will cause things to continue to get worse regardless of who's in charge (barring radical change) and at the modern pace of discourse, four years feels like an eternity.
It's a cult of personality, and Vance has all the charisma and personality of a couch.
And Trump has the personality of a sleezy used car salesman but apparently a lot of people are into that
Poor man's idea of a rich man. Idiot's idea of a businessman. Weak man's idea of a strong man.
Right, and Vance absolutely can not emulate it.
That's a roundabout way to tell him to go fuck himself.
Couch is his preference, not his personality. I'd describe it more as toad-like.
Also Vance is going to live long enough to face consequences.
Dude George W Bush was their guy two elections in a row.
There people are mindless lampreys just looking to latch onto anything that promises to hurt brown people.
Nobody was flying George Bush flags on their pickup trucks though. He didn't have the same cult of personality.
Nah, I remember seeing many “W” flags on bro dozers. It’s the same awful people.
He might unite the country in hating him.
They're like geese, they'll follow anything that waddles in front of them.
I think its too late to hope on that point, maybe if they all fall to infighting between the tech bro, christian nationalist, and groyper factions they'll tear themselves apart but he would have to be removed very soon for the country to be salvaged into anything resembling the one we knew growing up
He needs to fuck some more kids first.