What will happen to MAGA in 2029?

[e7alr]

@Sknyluv

@e7alr

Trump is the current face of the movement, not the movement itself. Progressives should believe otherwise at their political peril.

Trump is the only face of MAGA.

Progressives are so unperceptive.

[Sknyluv]

@e7alr

@Sknyluv

@e7alr

Trump is the current face of the movement, not the movement itself. Progressives should believe otherwise at their political peril.

Trump is the only face of MAGA.

Progressives are so unperceptive.

Who do you think would be the next face of MAGA?

[e7alr]

Don’t know yet. Do you know who will be the next face of Democratic Socialist Progressivism aka the Democratic Party yet?

[Sknyluv]

@e7alr

Don’t know yet. Do you know who will be the next face of Democratic Socialist Progressivism aka the Democratic Party yet?

No. But the next face of the Democrats won’t need to bow down to a single man in order to get that distinction.

[SixFoot]

@e7alr

Trump is the current face of the movement, not the movement itself. Progressives should believe otherwise at their political peril.

They need Trump to be the movement, because they need to believe that people will simply fall back in line when he’s gone.

[e7alr]

You so, so need that to be true for the Dems. You still don’t realize you made the Tea Party, which morphed into MAGA, which is still evolving and growing.

[WuWei]

@e7alr

The establishment GOP despises MAGA even more than the Dems do.

Perhaps. Sets up an interesting dilemma post Trump.

[WuWei]

@tnt

@e7alr

The establishment is invested in the grift of business as usual.

So Rubio went form Right leaning establishment GOPer to full blown MAGA because…why?

Political expediency.

[WuWei]

@SixFoot

@e7alr

Trump is the current face of the movement, not the movement itself. Progressives should believe otherwise at their political peril.

They need Trump to be the movement, because they need to believe that people will simply fall back in line when he’s gone.

The political people very well may.

[WuWei]

@e7alr

Trump is the current face of the movement, not the movement itself. Progressives should believe otherwise at their political peril.

I don’t think that’s true.

[Sknyluv]

@e7alr

You so, so need that to be true for the Dems. You still don’t realize you made the Tea Party, which morphed into MAGA, which is still evolving and growing.

This is comically wrong.

[eXNihilo]

MAGA as we know it won’t exist, as it won’t be centered around a person, but the elements of nationalism in MAGA will be carried in some form just like the distrust in governmental institutions in the Tea Party morphed into MAGA.

[DougBH]

Did the New Deal continue after FDR was gone? Nobody called it that, as it was largely a campaign,slogan. But the people FDR brought into the party and the ideologies of those people made the Democratic Party different than it was before FDR.

[e7alr]

The establishment fears that they won’t be needed.

[Samm]

@e7alr

He will be 82. He’ll make a bunch of money giving speeches, probably have a podcast. But father time will be knocking on the door.

Oh, I don’t know. My brother is 82 and he is just as feisty and ornery and determined to upset the status quo as he ever has been. Age is a state of mind as long as the body holds up.

[Samm]

@e7alr

It’s a value system, not a man. He is just the current face.

I think MAGA will dwindle like the Tea Party did. It’s difficult to maintain the momentum of emotional movements. It just takes too much energy to be sustained at such a high intensity without a narrowly focused cause.

[Samm]

@FreeAndClear

@e7alr

It’s always possible, and one will come along.

It’s never actually possible. In the past two thousand years the number of times there was a second go round after a very strong and self centered leader can be counted on two hands. And even then it was not the same. Just kinda the same.

I agree, but it’s still possible. Not probable is the phrase you were looking for.

[Samm]

@WuWei

@FreeAndClear

@e7alr

Some young, charismatic new face will copy his playbook.

That’s not possible.

I agree at least one will try. Rubio, Noem. There will be others.

Rubio in particular would be a natural choice to become the champion for the Republicans, but Trump and his cronies have so demeaned him that he wouldn’t stand a chance to fill his shoes. He’d probably lose the true believers to someone like Vance, but then Vance would lose the more moderate Republicans to Rubio. Noem is also a good choice for a higher level leadership position, but she too is incapable of carrying Trump’s MAGA banner.

[Samm]

@tnt

@e7alr

It’s a value system, not a man. He is just the current face.

What are MAGA values?

That’s simple … Do what Trump says to do without question. If Trump stays involved in 2029, they might hang around as a cohesive political force, but if he turns his back on politics and retires to one of his hotels on a golf course, they will splinter and diminish in influence.

[Samm]

@e7alr

Like I said, the pain is gone for him and he is at peace now. I happen to believe that the level of grief we feel at the passing of someone in our life is directly proportional to the blessing their being in our life has been.

Yep. Which is why I was deeply grieving the loss of my dear old dog for more than six months and still have “moments” (like right now as I write this)15 months after her passing.

It’s odd. As much as I loved my parents, and every now and then miss them, I never really grieved for them. Sad, yes, but not grief. Perhaps it was because they lived good respectable lives to 89 and 98 respectively and their passing was both expected and peaceful. Dogs though, can really touch your soul.