I hope you’re right, but from my perspective all the important and bad parts of the movement existed well before Trump. Trump assumed the position at the head of the movement after the fact. All this evil was festering in the country even back when Trump still called himself a Democrat and wasn’t involved in politics at all. His death will certainly be a blow and destabilize them for a bit, but the fact is that about 30% of the country is extremely xenophobic, extremely racist, extremely uneducated, very bigoted, very religious fundamentalist - And they do a lot better job of getting along with each other than everyone else. All you need to hang with that club is to say something like “fucking mexicans, right?” or even just wear your church hoodie. Trump is a good vessel to channel their energy, but they were doing a pretty good job actionably directing their energy themselves long ago. They have like 8 different options for figures to rally around next. The left has maybe Bernie, AoC, Mamdani, but can’t even agree on that. The left has no beloved podcasters, no beloved billionaires, no beloved news agencies. It’s an asymmetric battle because the right is intrinsically the establishment. Only real underdogs need rallying figures, but the right is only ever a faux underdog.
I doubt the maga movement survived the death of trump. It will balkanize without him.
I hope you’re right, but from my perspective all the important and bad parts of the movement existed well before Trump. Trump assumed the position at the head of the movement after the fact. All this evil was festering in the country even back when Trump still called himself a Democrat and wasn’t involved in politics at all. His death will certainly be a blow and destabilize them for a bit, but the fact is that about 30% of the country is extremely xenophobic, extremely racist, extremely uneducated, very bigoted, very religious fundamentalist - And they do a lot better job of getting along with each other than everyone else. All you need to hang with that club is to say something like “fucking mexicans, right?” or even just wear your church hoodie. Trump is a good vessel to channel their energy, but they were doing a pretty good job actionably directing their energy themselves long ago. They have like 8 different options for figures to rally around next. The left has maybe Bernie, AoC, Mamdani, but can’t even agree on that. The left has no beloved podcasters, no beloved billionaires, no beloved news agencies. It’s an asymmetric battle because the right is intrinsically the establishment. Only real underdogs need rallying figures, but the right is only ever a faux underdog.