On the plus side, many fascists have tried to use Hitler’s playbook and it hasn’t worked, because one needs the perfect combination of narcissism, shamelessness, idiocy, and perverted charisma to make it work, and that’s exceedingly rare. Vance has very little of that. He’s a bog-standard fascist, and cannot carry a movement.
Hopefully, yes. We’ll see if he (or, more honestly, the Heritage Foundation) is cogent enough to play his death smartly: rather than try to make Vance a replacement, they should make him trump’s standard-bearer.
Paint trump as a martyr; like Jesus, an absent saviour, with Vance in the role of Peter or Paul. That would be the smart thing, and could potentially work. Trump becomes a saint, with Vance his prophet, and that could get the MAGA movement behind him. We’ll see.
On the plus side, many fascists have tried to use Hitler’s playbook and it hasn’t worked, because one needs the perfect combination of narcissism, shamelessness, idiocy, and perverted charisma to make it work, and that’s exceedingly rare. Vance has very little of that. He’s a bog-standard fascist, and cannot carry a movement.
Thankfully very true. None of them have that narcissistic charisma that Trump does. Hopefully he goes fast and the whole movement crashes and burns.
Hopefully, yes. We’ll see if he (or, more honestly, the Heritage Foundation) is cogent enough to play his death smartly: rather than try to make Vance a replacement, they should make him trump’s standard-bearer.
Paint trump as a martyr; like Jesus, an absent saviour, with Vance in the role of Peter or Paul. That would be the smart thing, and could potentially work. Trump becomes a saint, with Vance his prophet, and that could get the MAGA movement behind him. We’ll see.