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    When they realize he is done, there will be a battle for the position of his successor, so don’t put your hopes up.

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      They’ve spent 80 years looking for a successor to Hitler and never found one.

      Sometimes building a cult around an individual doesn’t work out long term for a movement.

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        I don’t know, I think they got pretty close. Trump standing out there in front saying you’ll never have to vote again… Even now it’s not a sure thing and he’s not going to make it in.

        Hitler wasn’t this magical evil mastermind that just appeared in a vacuum. The fascists were huge party of people that helped him rise to power.

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        I don’t think that GOP will get the same treatment as post-war NSDAP…

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      They looked for one, spent 4 years, didn’t find one. He lost back to back popular votes. If they thought they had someone more popular, they would have used them.

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        Ya, there’s no successor.
        Trump is a one-off, and his popularity and spellbinding cult effect on 50% of Americans will baffle intelligentsia for millennia.

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          Remember when it seemed like DeSantis might be the successor? His charisma deficit plus his attacking the Weird 34 Idol were just two of Gone Ron’s problems. Sleepy DonOLD is a special kind of narcissistic weirdness that’s nigh impossible to duplicate.

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            I saw some premature Desantis president yard signs years ago. That was a glimpse into a different but also bleak future.

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          As others said, Hitler wasn’t a mastermind. There was a large percent of the population behind him. Another Trump is a maximum of 20 years away. Probably sooner because almost half the US population is behind Trump despite being anti military, a felon, and a rapist. The next demogogue is unlikely to be as overtly criminal.

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          I still think some investigative journalists should look into the NLP connection when it comes to donOLD.

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        Trump won. One day he will lose and that is when these others will crawl out of the shadow again. How would you like “Musk 2028”? :D

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          Thankfully impossible. Musk is foreign-born and therefore ineligible unless the constitution is amended and that bar is too high even though the GOP controls most state governments (they need 2/3rds). The GOP played with this idea back when The Governator was polling very well but even then it never passed the trial balloon phase.

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            Thankfully impossible. Musk is foreign-born

            Oh didn’t realize that, so that’s one less headache, because he would be exactly the kind of narcissist who would try that