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.

    • btaf45@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • kelroy@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

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

    • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.”