Mark My Words

This is something that I have been saying for a long time now. I, from the very bottom of my heart, believe that the moment Trump dies, MAGA will die with him.

Why? It's simple really, movements generally need to be practical, coherent, and flexible to last a long time. MAGA has none of these traits. MAGA currently stands for nothing. As a movement it has no values, no platform, no morals, and no leadership outside of Trump. Everything in the movement starts and stops with Trump. Whatever he says goes no matter how insane, nonsensical, or contradictory. Trump is the movement.

It wasn't always this way, back during his first term, MAGA did have some ideological diversity that forced the movement to have internal discourse which kept it somewhat balanced. There were evangelists, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, moderate Republicans, and so on. However, Trump has purged them all. In fact, he has purged everything and anything capable of independent thought leaving only blind loyalists and slimy opportunists.

Without Trump acting as their de facto prophet, these yes men will immediately leech on to the first self proclaimed successor they see. MAGA will fracture and split, and the different factions will spend most of their time fighting each other. This will lead MAGA to become ineffective, and because of this, it will fade into irrelevancy with time.

Similar to the ones that already happened to the heads of Nijisanji, VShojo, Idol, Wactor and so on.

I think this is pretty self evident given how only 34% of Americans have a favorable view of the Democrats at the moment (source). Considering how the Democrats over the past decade have a history so dysfunctional, incompetent, and corrupt that they always somehow manage to under perform, even in the best case scenarios. The 2026 midterms are not going to be any different.

Think about it, the Democrats have completely imploded after the 2024 election. Trump was and is so evil, stupid, incompetent, and corrupt that he's a basically cartoon villain. That should have been the easiest cakewalk of an election in this history of this country, a landslide victory so crushing it would collapse the GOP, but instead the opposite happened, and they fucking botched it... again.

Since this election, they've done nothing and they will continue to do nothing. The party is in shambles. They currently have no platform, no principles, no values, no leadership, no policies, no vision for the country, nothing. The old Democrats won't step aside and let new blood rise, the establishment and the progressives are going at each other's throats rather than working together, and there's barely any attempt at even pretending to act like opposition. They're just letting Trump do literally whatever he wants with zero consequences.

In anything, they'll actually go out of their way to screw themselves by infighting, doubling down on bullshit, and ignoring what matters. They'll also think highly of themselves where they think it's inevitable that they'll win only to end up either under performing or straight up losing. We saw this every single election cycle starting in 2016, a decade later, the same thing is going to happen in the 2026 midterms. They will fail to retake congress in a meaningful way, if at all, and Trump's grip on power will be further solidified.

Oh it's coming, and it will happen even if nobody wants it. The movie industry has already gone downhill the past decade or so where most of the industry has sacrificed good storytelling, originality, and art for formulaic storytelling, overproduced effects, and oversaturation. Why? Because the former produces culture while the latter produces profits, and guess what the shareholders who own and control the industry want?

Just like how we went from having creative, original, and culture defining movies being produced on the regular to having nothing but endless sequels and remakes now, there will be another step in this process that further ensures profits, and that's automation.

Not only will AI cut corners and ensure mass production, but it could be a new revenue stream for some big company. I guarantee that over the next few years, we're going to have one of the tech giants like Amazon develop a powerful AI model that can generate full blown movies on its own. It'll generate the scripts, visuals, and audio, and the end product will only require review and maybe some minor tweaks.

They'll put out an experimental AI movie in theaters, and they'll pay all the major media outlets to hype it up and talk about it nonstop for months. The movie, regardless of quality, will generate profit because people will be curious, and these companies are going to use this success to start selling their AI models to movie production companies for rates much lower than it would cost to hire writing staff, production staff, actors, animators, and HR departments... and they'll all flock to it because all they'll see is $$$. It'll be the new standard for the medium whether people like it or not, kind of like microtransactions in video games.