Presuming he is both alive and not in jail for the rest of his life by then, I could see him make a run of it. But those are both monumental ifs.
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You can run from in prison. And he absolutely would if he's still alive then.
The elderly tend to have some pretty severe mental decline from incarceration. He's already spiraling. I'm not sure there will be much left of him to run if he's in prison.
His ego will make him try over and over again. But I’m not sure if he can. Shithead is getting older and also his people started shooting at him. He probably won’t make it into a ~~third~~ fourth election.
yes and i'll be surprised if the gop manage to extricate him from their party
And be even older than Jobien when he does? All the "He's too old" T-shirts, will be in style again.
He'll be having a cheeseburger in paradise by then. There's no way that unhealthy guy makes it to 2028.
Jimmy Buffet reference...nice...
First he'll make money claiming the election was stolen. Then he'll make money from this jury trials. Then he'll make money from reelection.
I think with all the footage of Trump, and his shallow personality, an AI will be trained to impersonate him and we'll never be rid of him. I'm sure techbros are working on their animatronic Trump right now.
Animatrumpic*
They might roll him out on a wheelchair and wipe away the fluids dribbling out of his ends but "run" is not a word I would use.
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Trump will ALWAYS be able to Run! He's the FASTEST runner! Some people say he should be in the Olympics at running but he's too nice to let those Younger Folks have all the Glory. Trump could be DEAD and his Legs will STILL be kicking and trying to Run right out of his Grave! He's in the BEST shape of ANYONE probably in the Entire World!
I'm far more concerned about the rise of Nazism and Monarchism in the USA. Even if we never have a Republican in any governing office again and the country continues to move further and further left, America has a lot of work to do to ensure these forms of tyrrany are never even considered as a viable alternative to Democracy.
The fact that these forms of governance survive in the hearts and minds of people is an indicator of a larger and more complex societal failing that spans the entire history of America. This is not some strange short term flash in the pan of Nazism and Authoritarianism, it is an insidious and vile tradition passed down from generation to generation, and we have only staunched it's slow cancerous growth by publicly shaming those who voice these views publicly. Obviously this has proven ineffective.
I think a more important question than whether one particularly sad excuse for a sad sack of shit may run for president again, is how do we make sure the Trump dynasty, and all dynasties, fade into obscurity until the last remnants of their legacy is a footnote that indicates we lived in a time period when humans, due to many generations of hoisting up those with the most lust for power into positions of power, nearly destroyed themselves. How do we make that happen?
Facism - and that is what Trumpism ultimately is - has always been fuelled by declining social security and rising social inequality. This provides the matrix for an ideology of us vs. them that is ultimately a distribution battle in a declining economy. Unless the USA (as well as many other nations esp. in Europe) solves this issue sufficiently well for the people at large, I see little hope for Trump or any of his clones to disappear from the political stage. That is also why the right is so eager to frame any initiative that aims to mitigate social precariousness as radical left/communism/socialism.
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The problem is not Trump. The problem is the people who vote for him
The members of a personality cult are victims of its leader. The problem is Trump.
No. They are susceptible to be influenced and manipulated. If it isn't Trump someone else will do the same
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Absolutely. The GOP is stuck with him until he dies...and his dad lived to be 93.
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He’ll be in prison or dead.
You think that thing, held together by duct tape and bobby pins, is living to 2028?
I would hope he would fade away. But between the need for grifted money and ego I doubt he will stop until he physically can't any more.
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I don't see how he can live that long.