It would’ve been someone else if not Donny. Power has been consolidated in the executive branch for decades, while that of congress and the senate has eroded. A system designed to be trilateral is no longer so when one of the three can just nope out of whatever the other two say. The US has only been fortunate that it’s taken this long to have someone in that office with no morals.
It was already evident in 2010 that something like this was increasingly possible, as noted in Executive Unbound by Eric Posner.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
He was almost assassinated the day before the national convention. I wonder who the candidate would have been
goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
God, we were truly robbed of one of history’s greatest power vacuums. That shit would’ve made the Death of Stalin look like a church picnic. It starts with Vance saying he should be the obvious front-runner because he was totally the pick for VP, you just gotta trust him guys, he doesn’t have anything in writing because it was a secret handshake deal but he was totally gonna be the VP, ask anyone, and it ends with Ron DeSantis burying Mike Pence in cement while Nikki Haley drowns the convention center in gasoline.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 day ago
And it all would've happened on WWE.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 day ago
And then, the “reward” we would have gotten would have been someone competent in charge of all this horrifying stuff.
You want terror? It would already be packed up by now. The Democrats would be an illegal party, I think, and the paramilitary would already be semi controlling a lot of the streets, instead of doing such a good job at pissing people off and looking like the bad guys as they are doing now. It is still very very dangerous. But we are very lucky that Trump is in charge of it all.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
None of that happens without a charismatic cult leader. They cannot replace Trump and I’d image they’re shitting bricks behind the scenes. LOL, can you imagine the backstabbing and power grabs going on as Trump dives further and further into dementia and heart failure?!
I’d laugh, but I’m afraid they have a succession plan.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I doubt that. That was all too convenient. Not to be a conspiracy theorist but it was literally perfect in every way. Down to the photo op. I might be 90% wrong but that 10% helps me believe the universe knows what it’s doing.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That 10% is why you believe. A kid had an opportunity, took the shot, failed, end story.
Same for Charlie Kirk. Exact same story.