I really wanted to lead in with @ZG's observation (but which thread had it?) that when Trump is gone it will not mean that Trumpism will vanish. Quite the contrary the battle for the Republican party's soul will start.
- and as the President is the party's acting-CEO, in want of one (from the party
), the fight will boil down to how much following will the 2024 hopefuls be able to command.
Zero are the Neocons, who have just like the folks here who tried to underpin Brexit with 'scientific thinking' disappeared underground;
ArmChairCivvy wrote:
Those folks disappeared when the Gvmnt made - what it until then had been hiding - official that for all main sectors of the economy the outcome would either be bad... or 'worse'
cough-cough, Iraq war was their (Br)exit
Capitalism as a common good, AKA steal the Democrats ticket:
- Marco Rubio? (would do away with the racism/ ethnicity stain as a bonus)
The stay-behind forces from the Trump era
-Nikki Haley (brings the same bonus as the M.R.)
... or even Pompeo (foreign policy issues could be more central than they were in the election just had)
Evangelists are about 80 million, and of that vote (80% in 2016 for Trump) Trump lost some... with fairly un-Christian behaviours?
- who was on the ticket to bring those folks in, in the first place;
- Mike Pence has pretty much disappeared for now - so as to to not be remembered as part of this unprincipled farce that is currently running
Will any of the above be able catch Trump's redneck base - and if not, who could be the next Republican black horse (well, black swan, if Trump's legacy is anything to go by)?
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)