Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?
tty5@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As much as I hate the guy I hope he isn’t killed. The last thing we need is republicans having a martyr, especially before they find out how bad for them he is.
With tariff fallout there are decent chances they will not have a majority for a long time. After the tariff act of 1930 they went from having 14 seats more than democrats to a low of 16 seats out of 96 In senate in just 8 years. After that they had a senate majority once and congress majority twice in the next 50+ years.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Unfortunately GOPers are too cowardly to do anything about him.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The GOPers won’t assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.
No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.
And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn’t stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in ‘business’ in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can’t deliver anything near his lofty claims.
Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman… despite having no business successes at all.
He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted… wanting ‘not a politician, but a businessman’ for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US’s soft power in the world.
But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.
Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.
With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler… but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.