The Trump Thread

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

shavenferret said:

Vance won't put us through another reign of terror. He's not good but he won't be that bad. Trump is also getting weaker. He will soon be drooling and I can't see anyone rallying behind Trump by the end of the year as he's quickly dealing. 

Vance is much more of a lawful evil type if you like d and d. He won't be going nuts lol. 

That's a very dangerous calculation to make.

Iranians for instance thought this about the Ayatollah compared to the Shah, and look how that went. They thought that in China about Mao compared to Chiang-Kai-Shek, also didn't exactly work out. Cubans thought so about Fidel Castro, see where that lead to?

Long story short, never think that somebody won't be as bad and just a less bad replacement, as history shows time and again that they tend to be even worse.

When you overthrow a regime, you get to ignore the existing rules and make new ones instead. That's a lot of power you get automatically in that situation. It's hard to see how Vance could end up having that much power, unless Trump has already consolidated so much power and Vance is capable of using it too (e.g. without lower popular support causing issues). Vance is probably more competent in a lot of ways but still bound by rules a lot more than Trump, if I had to guess.