Former President Trump’s decision to skip the first Republican presidential primary debate is fueling Republican angst that his rivals will have little opportunity to catch up to him in the polls.

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It’s almost like you shouldn’t have put your eggs all in one basket.

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Where do the trump supporters go when trump dies?

Sounds like the beginning of a joke but really, what happens to the MAGA movement when the leader is no longer around? What happens to the GOP ? Do they become weaker and more divided? or can the national GOP rally around a new leader?

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I mean this as a Cassandra-like prediction of doom:

The Trumps will become the republican version of the Kennedys. The Bushes tried it, but somehow we’re both over-intellectual and insufficiently prejudiced to make it work in today’s gop.

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Hopefully they all move to Russia and Belarus.

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The only cultnof personality that has successfully handed down succession is the Kim dynasty in north Korea…

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Sounds like the beginning of a joke but really, what happens to the MAGA movement when the leader is no longer around?

Every single one of them will claim they never really supported him.

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Where do the trump supporters go when trump dies?

Don Jr, of course…

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Oh they’ll rally alright. All they need is some more fake outrage from Fox to get their panties all up in a bunch.

Either that or fox will just display words that alternate every few hours like “abortion” or “immigrants” and underneath it’ll say “vote republican.”

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I think this is a super interesting question. My bet is that there will be a few years of GOP chaos after he dies.

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They’ll say he ascended and will await his return for thousands of years.

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If we’re lucky, they’ll follow him to hell.

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To the surprise of absolutely no one.

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The only way to discourage this behavior is to help the other candidates make their pitch, which has to be why they are a better choice than Trump.

This should be how it works, the entire reason for the debate is that the attendees benefit from the attention.

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But will conservatives even watch a debate that Trump isn’t attending?

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This is another example of how leniency for those who would make themselves king eventually leads to dictatorship. See you in another 5 years for the civil war.

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Promise? Maybe this time we can learn to take away their toys after they get sent home crying.

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See you in another 5 years for the civil war.

I worry that you’re being optimistic

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