I have to say Trump is a fairly unique distillation of every aspect of American society that Americans don’t like to admit they have. He has plenty of vain, self-serving sycophants under him that could take his place, but I will say there are very few who have the same mix of incompetence, shamelessness and charisma draw for a certain populace.
People underestimate the influence a single person can have on history. Without Hitler, there would have been no Nazi Germany. Without Trump, the Nazi movement in the US will fall apart. They’re certainly not going away but without a Führer they’ll just be a bunch of bickering factions. And none of the other fuckers will be able to rally their base the way Trump did.
There might very well still have been something else bad. The discontent was there, if hitler hadn’t been the one to utilize it, it could’ve been someone else. Same with trump. There’s still a good chance that whoever would win the power struggle if the orange suddenly croaked had none of the apparent charisma of trump (not that I think he has any but it clearly works on a lot of people). Fascism is a personality cult, and just replacing that isn’t a given, but the initial rise heavily selects for someone who is able to create one. So if not them, it’d likely have been someone else maybe a little later.
Germany might have ended up with some different form of fascism without Hitler. But I doubt things would have turned out quite as badly. Which is pure speculation, of course. Also, there may be another fascist leader after Trump. But again, I doubt he’ll have the same kind of following.
A lot of folks don’t really think about it. A man could be gone, but his ideas and legacy will live on. We are short term thinking and instinctive animals prone to collective suicide.
So many people think that when Trump leaves his mortal boil things will “get better”.
But actually, what are the odds that the next sellout-in-chief will be as stupid as Trump? We’re just getting started
I have to say Trump is a fairly unique distillation of every aspect of American society that Americans don’t like to admit they have. He has plenty of vain, self-serving sycophants under him that could take his place, but I will say there are very few who have the same mix of incompetence, shamelessness and charisma draw for a certain populace.
I like to say he is America’s Id made manifest.
I feel like you just jinxed us with a Joe Rogan presidency. WTF, dude.
Accurate typo is accurate.
People underestimate the influence a single person can have on history. Without Hitler, there would have been no Nazi Germany. Without Trump, the Nazi movement in the US will fall apart. They’re certainly not going away but without a Führer they’ll just be a bunch of bickering factions. And none of the other fuckers will be able to rally their base the way Trump did.
There might very well still have been something else bad. The discontent was there, if hitler hadn’t been the one to utilize it, it could’ve been someone else. Same with trump. There’s still a good chance that whoever would win the power struggle if the orange suddenly croaked had none of the apparent charisma of trump (not that I think he has any but it clearly works on a lot of people). Fascism is a personality cult, and just replacing that isn’t a given, but the initial rise heavily selects for someone who is able to create one. So if not them, it’d likely have been someone else maybe a little later.
Germany might have ended up with some different form of fascism without Hitler. But I doubt things would have turned out quite as badly. Which is pure speculation, of course. Also, there may be another fascist leader after Trump. But again, I doubt he’ll have the same kind of following.
A lot of folks don’t really think about it. A man could be gone, but his ideas and legacy will live on. We are short term thinking and instinctive animals prone to collective suicide.