We don't know which other extremely powerful people would go down as well. But the sheer desperation and increasingly spectacular distractions indicate a massive power collapse.
Vance and his crypto bros Thiel and Musk do not have the raw meat appeal of Trump with the masses, and even if they have blackmail on legislators, it might pale by an Epstein data dump.
Trump's core weakness is he will eventually lie and contradict himself into a "painted" corner that the desperation of the true believers cannot suspend credulity or disbelief any longer when they're losing jobs, losing healthcare, going broke, and experiencing greater uncertainty and chaos including the possibility of being driven into possibly new, direct conflicts with China and Russia and reversing progress on clean air, water, food, and phase-out of fossil fuels. It's simply impossible to fool enough of the people enough of the time. Mussolini and Bolsonaro found this out the hard way. This is because he doesn't know what he's doing or what to do because he's playing a part, a simulacra of leader who just happens to know how to manipulate the desires of a fraction of people better than the feckless, useless corporate Democrats who almost entirely lack charisma and appreciation of social media savviness and visual symbolism instead relying on legions of consultants to manufacture a stiff, superficial unappealing image.
k310|5 months ago
Vance and his crypto bros Thiel and Musk do not have the raw meat appeal of Trump with the masses, and even if they have blackmail on legislators, it might pale by an Epstein data dump.
Just my two cents.
burnt-resistor|5 months ago