re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump is a cult of personality. Without the person it will crumble. Most of them will still vote GOP but will not come out in such strong numbers.

That was his winning strategy in 2016: He knew that all of his 30% would come out to vote, he just needed to get a reasonable share of the undecideds (in the right places) to ensure an Electoral College win.

The party’s decision to embrace Trump to win an election has basically set the stage for the party’s eventual collapse. He will never pick a successor, never choose someone to replace him in the hearts of his supporters, whether out of a death bed delusion that he will survive or out of malice and spite towards a party he feels has not shown him sufficient loyalty. And the moment he expires, the resulting scramble to put somebody else in his place will ignite a firestorm that will incinerate what little solidarity the party has remaining.