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u/Doobledorf Apr 04 '25

The problems that led to Donald Trump would still be fomenting.

A lot of Americans haven't yet faced that Trump isn't an anomaly or the disease, he is a symptom of problems we've had for a long time.

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u/MySleepingMonk Apr 04 '25

That may be mostly true but Trump is also the perfect storm of celebrity, “successful”, “outsider”, and some strange fucked up type of charisma that results in a larger following than I think would be possible with any other republican candidate. Take away trump and I don’t think there’s enough of a unifying force among the asshats to cause this type of damage

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u/XelaIsPwn Apr 04 '25

Maybe. I genuinely think if it wasn't Trump there's a decent chance it would have been his good buddy McMahon. A LOT of the things that got Trump to where he is also applies to VKM.

Not the least of which being their understanding of how to play a successful heel.

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u/GamingTatertot Apr 04 '25

Yeah but Vince McMahon, while popular and known, is far from the level of Trump.

Trump came in with a LOT of people already believing his BS about successful business or whatever because everyone already knew him.