• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Nobody else has the ability to be the cult leader that he is. But maybe they’ll be entrenched enough that they don’t need the cultists’ support any more.

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      Plus, hasn’t he pretty well decimated the GOP ranks? Any worthy competitor has been exiled or humiliated or both leaving the ranks filled with only sniveling sycophants and uncharismatic bigots.

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        The contest won’t be over who can imitate Trump the best. It’ll be who can use Trump as a martyr best. They all know Trump is the glue that holds their machine together.

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          Trump will destroy the courts and elections. Then the rest doesnt matter. Any idiot republican will be able to slide right in.

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          Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far. I’m unconvinced there’s anyone else likely to successfully take on the mantle of cult leader after him. I guess we’ll see eventually.

          • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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            Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far.

            Thousands of years, billions of followers, largest global influence, as this is basically what christianity is built from