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He is 78, in awful health, and has no interest in a legacy or supporting a successor. He keeps everyone around him at odds and maintains enough infighting that no clear heir apparent could really show up.
So like, he really only will hold power long enough to make everything terrible. So we got that goin for us.
It will definitely be interesting to see at which stage each "well, maybe it won't be that bad" people realize that, yes. It will.
You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.
But the damage was done, and Rome had a civil war over whether it would go back to being a Republic like it had been or if it would have an autocratic ruler. Obviously, the latter won out.
A lesson from history.
Let's not lump Trump in with Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was a war hero and a capable leader who's final crimes were giving out citizenship and housing.
Trump's final crimes will be giving all our state secrets to every other government in the world and obliterating our infrastructure.
Yet nobody chose Caesar, yet millions chose for Trump
He was elected as Dictator many times on a yearly basis and sometimes multiple times a year. He was so vastly popular the citizenry they killed the assassin's, hunted down an heir and put him in power.
Julius Ceasar and his follow on Agustus were insanely capable leaders that did great things for their country. The empire was so great and lasted twice the time America has, it's fall caused the Dark Ages.
Rome is a bad example here because technically the Dictatorship was good for them. Rome fell due to corruption that came in via enabling the Christian church to operate freely. Now that is a much better analog here that we enabled religious organizations to become tax free political action committees and uncapped their ability to influence government. This meant the evangelical grifters became the most powerful political entities in America.
We have so many lessons from history to pull from right now that you would need multiple professors to explain them all and yet they were all ignored.
Professors? You must mean those librul elites. I do my own research!
You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.
So you're saying he was dictator for life? 😂
Yeah, a "joke".
Ben Shapiro is a hypocritical piece of shit. Sorry that might not be relevant.
Nah, that's always relevant
He’ll do what Putin did. Have Vance run as President, and run as his Vice-President. He’ll maintain control like Dick Cheney with Bush.
Trump's malignant narcissism won't let him be subordinate to someone else. So that idea is out.
That’s explicitly not allowed by the constitution. 12th amendment
It's already established that the 14th amendment doesn't apply to him, so why would the 12th?
You know as well as I do the 14th is very vague and up for interpreting what a traitor is. The partisan Supreme Court already decided he’s not a traitor. Let it go already.
The 12th is not vague and would need a super majority to override.
Yes, but the 28th Amendment written on this McDonald's napkin says he can totally do this.
It wasn't a joke.
Jk, jk...unless...
It's not a joke, you fucking idiot.