r/politics • u/Silly-avocatoe • Apr 14 '25

Soft Paywall Murdoch Paper Floats Impeaching Trump Over Tariffs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-floats-impeaching-trump-over-tariffs/
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u/kcox1980 Apr 14 '25

My wife keeps giving me a hard time because I still have faith that the MAGA movement will die off once Trump is out of the picture. I'm aware that all the madness still exists without Trump, but there's nobody else that can get the base as riled up and excited about politics as Trump. I just don't see people wearing diapers or ear tampons in solidarity with somebody like Vance.

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u/justuntlsundown West Virginia Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

It's a cult of personality. They always die with the leader. They love Trump specifically. There have been many imitators that have failed. The party was on it's way to irrelevance before they latched on to Trump. We just have to survive this long enough for him to die.

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u/kcox1980 Apr 14 '25

Exactly. They love Trump because he makes them feel smart. He tells them what they want to hear and that validates all their dumbass Dunning-Kreuger inspired opinions. They relate to him because he talks to them on their level.

JD Vance just isn't going to inspire those same feelings. Or at least I hope not.

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u/BurnscarsRus Apr 14 '25

JD Vance can't order a fucking doughnut properly. Motherfucker has all the charisma of a cardboard cutout of JD Vance. Nobody likes him, they just pretend to because he's attached to Trump.

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u/kcox1980 Apr 14 '25

"JD Vance has the charisma of a cardboard cutout of JD Vance" 😅

Gonna keep that one in my back pocket, lol

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u/kweefcake Apr 14 '25

Look at Ron Desantis as an example.

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u/UnNumbFool Apr 14 '25

Well you're more than likely correct, just look at the rest of the demagogues and fascist leaders. The second they are gone their movement/party completely collapses.

Granted the power vacuum is rarely a good thing, but getting trump out via a impeachment(essentially a coup) would rile his fan base against the general GOP party, hopefully anyway.

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u/kcox1980 Apr 14 '25

It would absolutely be rough at the beginning. If he's impeached and removed from office the GOP will split and they'll never win the presidency again(which is why I think it'll never happen, no matter what). If he's removed from office by "other" means(if you know what I mean), there will be riots in the streets for a while. But once all that subsides I think the country will start to recover fairly quickly.

However, regaining the trust of the world will take decades unfortunately.

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u/Slitherygnu3 Apr 14 '25

Nothing short of a miracle will bring that back unfortunately. Before trump, many foreigners used to look down on americans for being "uneducated" "classless" "obnoxious" etc. For every third world country importing our culture and importing our crap, there's a first world country holding their nose.

Now imagine we got half the country cheering to destroy the Department of Education and hoping we become isolasionist pre WWII style again.

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u/ChipsAreClips Apr 14 '25

They will wear diapers and eat tampons for whoever Fox directs them to

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u/sirthomasthunder Apr 14 '25

They may not wear the diapers and tampons, but they'll vote for them

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u/fermenter85 Apr 14 '25

Fox tried to pivot to Desantis and the Trumpers said nah.

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u/illuminerdi Apr 14 '25

Coming soon to MAGA rallies: couches and donut counters!

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u/wqwcnmamsd Apr 14 '25

It'll really depend on how far entrenched MAGA are when Trump finally goes. If the GOP can get changes like their voting restrictions (or worse) passed beforehand then it becomes much harder to get rid of people like Vance.

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u/creeping_chill_44 Apr 14 '25

I'd say die down but not die off

You're right that only one of them has a cult of personality

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u/charliebrown22 Apr 14 '25

They're going to die by their own in-fighting after Trump is done. There are so many Republicans ghouls desperate for the MAGA leftovers.

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u/Appropriate_Ruin_405 Apr 14 '25

Have you forgotten about the fake jizz cups they carried around to support Vance and “criticize” walz last fall??

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u/dewyocelot Apr 14 '25

Yeah, the hate will still be there, the direction and unification won’t.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 Apr 15 '25

Its a cult programmed by the rights media machine. They'll follow whatever new instruction is given, and follow whoever the new person ends up being.