While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.
I am not a friend of Biden’s Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he’s too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and … well, disappointed in Biden or not, I’m voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe’s tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn’t want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.
Are we really in a world where the march of 40 years of fervent evangelical christian nationalism is just “Trump and his goons”?
Trump could both die and go to jail today and that ideological shift is going nowhere but onward.
He’s gonna die sooner than later. While I don’t disagree that the evangelical fascist movement will continue, they sure have latched onto Trump hard. Who’s your bet for his eventual replacement? Has to be someone with a big media reach with a history of pandering hard to that audience. No need to be qualified for the position. Alex Jones, maybe? Or is he old news/dead meat at this point?
There’s plenty of Republicans happy to mimic Trump given the chance. Closest right now is probably Ted Cruz, if Republicans weren’t mostly misogynists I’d also say Margarine Taylor Greene.
He tried, didn’t go so well for him.
True, but if I were to bet on someone trying to fill the Trump void I’d bet on Cruz or Desantis. Someone that dumb and slimey wouldn’t pass on the chance.
Well right now Trump doesn’t even have a VP pick. Ostensibly: whomever he picks for that.
But just as the movement quickly coalesced around Trump, they’ll easily pivot to someone like Nicki Haley who will easily recouperate any Republicans Trump lost by being Trump, [edit:the type of voter] who the Democrats have been trying to court for about the same 40 years christian fascism has been on the rise.