I have posted previously on this topic, yet as time marches
on the disaster waiting is getting worse.
We all know it, it is staring even his supporters in the
face, yet what happens after Trump passes away is potentially getting uglier by
the day. Months ago I suggested the Republicans start planning for a Trump
world. Then later on I was a bit more direct of what the Republicans will be
facing once Trump is gone. Now it is beyond the planning phase time frame and what
is looming for this country is flat out insane.
The power play after Trump will wreck havoc on this country.
We have all heard the phrase power does not exist in a vacuum or something to
that nature. Also today I was overhearing a podcast from a historian named Heather
Richardson I think talking about there is a power shuffle or loose power
structure going on in the administration right now. Not exactly sure since I was
overhearing and not paying complete attention. Yet her point seemed to be that
behind the scenes people are starting to position themselves for what happens
after Trump. Some names she mentioned that might be jockeying around were JD
Vance and maybe Tucker Carlson, but she also mentioned Carlson may be backing
Vance.
The real issue is most of his cabinet and sycophants rely on
Trump for power. They need him more for their future than their own careers
will allow them to be successful. And there isn’t much cohesiveness amongst the
group either. If and when Vance becomes President, how much of Trump’s cabinet
and staff will he keep. And what happens when the infighting begins as they
desperately cling to power.
Also Trump’s supporters will allow people to tell them it
isn’t Trump that was a failure, but all these cabinet and staff members that
let him down which will include Vance. People like Andrew Vought and Steven
Miller may be the first to go, but also the most dangerous as the go out.
Especially Vought because he probably has the most cohesive plan working, yet
needs Trump to continue it. Well, honestly I am going to leave that sentence
out there, but I do not know if Vance and Vought are on the same page. Vance
may keep him since he does have a working plan. Miller not so much and offers
no real advantage to Vance and whatever he may want to do once he becomes
President. Personally though I would love to see both go since for different reasons,
they are both dangerous to our democracy.
There are a plethora of cabinet members though that need to
go and how attached to any of them is Vance. I don’t think much, yet they may
do some crazy things (not that they aren’t already) on the way out the door.
Most of Trump’s cabinet since there for loyalty reasons to Trump won’t offer
much for Vance and easily are a hindrance if not an outright disaster ongoing
for him.
Vance becomes President by default if Trump passes away
before 2028. Yet every problem that Trump created will fall onto Vance’s lap.
It could end up being the worst thing that could happen to any one person. And
the problems are only getting worse even if oil and gas prices come down a bit
in the short term. Iran already thinks he is a joke and will probably shut the
Strait of Hormuz down or slap ridiculously high tolls on certain countries daring
him to do something about it. Trump’s tariffs still cause headaches for our
trade partners and they won’t want to jump on board to save him. He will have
to repair NATO and trade alliances with people who will not trust him one bit,
nor respect him.
So Vance will become impotent from day one, he will have
cabinet members trying to hold onto their jobs either with outlandish actions
or accusations, and a country that never wanted him in the first place. Why
this isn’t major fodder for the talking heads world astounds me.
The post Trump world is going to be a nightmare and now that
there are temporarily some Senators acting tough may not be enough to settle
the power structure down in D. C.
Add the rise of socialist democrats in very democratic
cities, you can see major jockeying of partisan madness as both sides get
dirtier and dirtier with their hate and finger pointing. I know these same socialist
democrats think they have tons of momentum going their way, but it will hit a
major wall outside their specific regions. They think their ideas will take
hold because of how bad Trump has been, yet to this day they do not see the
fact that people wanted Trump to succeed because of what he says were his
policies. Those policy wishes do not change just because Trump passes away. And
of course there is the far right that is more emboldened and just hates
everybody (including themselves) so they aren’t going away. The possibility of
political outbreaks throughout the country exists if someone doesn’t grab the
national attention quickly and offers some policy that tampers down inflation
and more importantly the political rhetoric. It won’t all go away, but if we get
lucky and someone can grab the middle’s attention and support, it might be less
of a rocky ride.
Yet there is no one currently in any spotlight that offers us
a chance to settle down the partisan hate without the ugly happening first. Our
country as a whole can look much worse than a green reflecting pool very fast.
The good news is and I think Ms. Richardson also brought this up is that most
people in this country still like our country and what we represent. What we
need is for a very dynamic person to rise to the top with practical ideas that
people see as possible. Sounds fairy tale like, but we are almost to that point.
Most people ignore the far right so they very rarely gain much traction with
the body politic of this country, yet the far left does garner some waves of
momentum occasionally and that is more dangerous than the middle realizes.
Right now too much socialism is not the answer even though to rebuild our way
of life some socialistic type ideas will need some attention. A delicate
balance to say the least but yo yoing from one extreme (Trump’s right wing
bigotry and authoritarianism) to the other extreme is not the answer no matter how
often the left is going to cheer it on since people like Mamdani are capturing
some major attention with some success in New York. Yet what works for New York
isn’t going to fly in quite a few other cities and states. Just the nature of
the political beast in a large and diverse, in more ways than one, country.
This large and beautiful country with the infamous melting
pot we so love to tout works best when there is local politicians having some
control over their respective areas, along with a national government that tries
to create basic baselines of federal oversight and balance that gives equal
benefit throughout the country. With the rise of the one percent, that hasn’t
been the case in decades and people do feel it. We just hope that the center
line is strengthened going forward and the wealth divide crumbles in a positive
way so the majority have the opportunity we always say we have.
Yet to even get there we will face the ugly algae of Trump’
reflecting pool running rampant throughout D. C. for possibly years. A sad and
true reality we face.
I was going to stop, yet I remembered one hope is that we
get a new Speaker of the House that people respect asap and is open to busting
open some of Trump’s political wins to bring back some leverage for the middle
class.
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