I think its hard to say either way. Definitely something I’ve been thinking about as well.
Like on the one hand, it’s pretty obvious project 2025 was the product of them having 4 years to screw in a single light bulb between themselves. I don’t think they would have accomplished everything in the bill even with the extra term.
On the other hand, what kind of power could they have consolidated with the extra 4 years of continuity? If things had gone “according to plan” I could see Trump magnanimously passing the presidential torch to a sycophantic successor who’d allow Trump to retain his Cult leader status.
It took the democrats setting him up as an “easy to beat” opponent in 2016, getting beaten, flailing uselessly, torpedoing bernie
I know you’re referencing 2020, but IMO the DNC snubbing Bernie in 2016 incentivized a lot of “nihilistic” or “accelerationist” votes. To a degree they had a point. Hillary undeniably would have been more successful at perpetuating American Hegemony. So many people voted for Trump because they underestimated how much the decline of US global supremacy would effect them directly.
I think its hard to say either way. Definitely something I’ve been thinking about as well.
Like on the one hand, it’s pretty obvious project 2025 was the product of them having 4 years to screw in a single light bulb between themselves. I don’t think they would have accomplished everything in the bill even with the extra term.
On the other hand, what kind of power could they have consolidated with the extra 4 years of continuity? If things had gone “according to plan” I could see Trump magnanimously passing the presidential torch to a sycophantic successor who’d allow Trump to retain his Cult leader status.
I know you’re referencing 2020, but IMO the DNC snubbing Bernie in 2016 incentivized a lot of “nihilistic” or “accelerationist” votes. To a degree they had a point. Hillary undeniably would have been more successful at perpetuating American Hegemony. So many people voted for Trump because they underestimated how much the decline of US global supremacy would effect them directly.