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Would that help though?
No, Vance is worse, imo.
At least, he doesn't have the majority of the cult behind him.
It’s not the cult that matters it’s the wealthy people running the show. All you’d do is replace chaos with evil.
The cult absolutely matters. The reason half of Congressional Republicans go along with this shit is they're afraid of their violent supporters turning on them. And they know dementia Donny has a tendency to direct their ire at whoever disagrees with him.
Once that cult splinters, that threat diminishes. The die hard racists hate Vance because of his wife and children, everyone else hates him because he's a spineless charisma vacuum. There's only so much corporate media can do to manufacture clips that make someone look not ridiculous to even the intended audience.
Miller isn’t chaotic and he’s running the show right now. And Vance will keep him around after Trump goes full vegetable.
I don't think we can know that really. I think Vance is fake as hell. He used to say a bunch of things publicly that he no longer claims to believe.
Vance has sold into the grift, but it was only 6 years ago when he was denouncing Trump.
So what does this mean?
I personally hope it means he would prefer the style of conservative we saw last decade. Evil, but with a preference for stability. A stability designed to benefit the wealthy, but still stable.
I'd rather take 1 step back from the cliff than to plunge all the way off it. Still too close for comfort though.
These are more my hopes, he could in fact be much much worse. The neat part is it's statically likely we'll get to know in the next 4 years
Maybe not directly, but the schadenfreude will be the most delicious thing to happen since the end of 2016.