Can trumpism survive without trump?

[babylonsister]

This question gives me the willies.

[Phoenix61]

1. Absolutely not. It's a cult of personality. It will die with him. nt

[Kath2]

2. I really hope not.

I may be a dreamer, but I really think that horrible mistake is over. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to be associated with that group.

[TwilightZone]

3. Trump is a symptom; he's not the disease.

There are lots of Trump clones in Congress and other positions of leadership, and his beliefs have been shared by many in the GOP for a very long time, well before Trumpism was a thing. Trump just made it ok to be much more open about it.

Getting rid of him will help, no doubt, but it won't cure all ills. We'll have to systematically replace as many of them as possible or hope that the GOP somehow has an epiphany.

[flying_wahini]

4. Nope. It will be a dead horse.....

[elleng]

10. Right.

[stopdiggin]

5. women's access, gender wars, and birth control

are all issues not driven by Trump. And these things are doing pretty well in statehouses around the country. Indications that MAGA can generate its own energy. (IMO)

[Duncan Grant]

6. Without the cult leader, the cult dies.

Hopefully, a slow -agonizing-painful-lesson to all — death. Amen.

[TSExile]

8. Make it a FAST, agonizing, painful lesson to all.

There's no time to waste between now and November!!

[Lancero]

12. Given the history behind the defintions of cult, Amen is quite the irony.

[Mariana]

14. This particular cult is so intertwined with Evangelical Christianity.

The Evangelical preachers may very well keep it going if it's popular with their congregations.

[mucifer]

7. I think a lot of republicans hate us more than they love trump

[GopherGal]

13. Yeah, the hate will live on...

TSF having awakened/fanned their hate, will it die out without him to stoke it?

They don't really have any principles. This is the party that had no party platform four years ago. It was essentially "whatever catches Donnie Dirtbag's fancy that day."

On the other hand, hate is eternal and omnipresent. And hate is what they're all about.

[elleng]

9. No, 'cause it doesn't exist.

[Johonny]

11. I think the GOP is a crap show

And won't recover from Trump. The GOP is now the party of influencers and social media likes.

[Kennah]

15. Nazism survived without Hitler, albeit in a reduced form

[nolabear]

16. I say no. He hates people too much to bring anyone up.

I haven’t heard one word from appointees, staff, or anyone who isn’t deluded enough to think he’d care that he’s done a thing for them. There are no likes or dislikes, there are transactions. Given his whole appeal is the cult of personality I don’t see how he can have an heir.

[diva77]

17. The billionaires & corporations will anoint another willing shill to represent them. There are plenty of replacements

to choose from.

Sorry to be so cynical.

[Arthur_Frain]

18. Flies will always find more rotting shit.

Before they were maggots they were tea party shitheads.

McCarthyism was them too. They’ve gone by different names in the decades in between.

We will outlast them, and eventually put the rock back on top of the hole once they crawl back in.

So much depends on this election.

[WarGamer]

19. Trumpism predated Trump...

Trumpism is just another name for Tea Party, Ron Paul-ism, Buchanan with a little bit of Goldwater mixed in...