... all lost. The institution helping MAGA the most, SCOTUS, was only able to do so because a bunch of Republicans not wedded to MAGA enabled it. Last year, a huge chunk of American society reconfigured around the idea of inevitable Trump eternity. They all look pretty dumb now.

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It's that they won twice with the same guy, who is now 80 and not getting any younger. There is no guarantee that other MAGA personalities prevail on the national level and a LOT of evidence showing the struggle anywhere that isn't comfy red state territory. Dr. Oz, Blake Masters, Herschel Walker...

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... a lot of them struggle to survive when the personality dies, to different degrees. Stalinism in the USSR and now Russia is still on life support, but there was a good three decades when it was not. Nobody outside of Louisiana cares about Huey Long in 2026. It isn't that MAGA won twice...

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SENTIMENT THREE: This is it, every four years America could be under a crazy man who doesn't honor alliances. This is, strictly defined, true. But it gives the MAGA movement too much credit. Will MAGA endure post-Trump? It's possible, not inevitable. Based on how most cults of personality go...

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Cutting parts of the bureaucracy does nothing to help that and quite a bit to hurt it. Leaving NATO is an even worse idea. Do you think Russia's just going to sit back and go "Oh that's cool we'll wait until you get your new alliance up, that's only fair."?

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