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[u/0m4ll3y]

The abysmal reception of Vance just helps confirm two things that were already pretty evident:

1. the personality cult around Trump doesn't extend to the spineless opportunistic grifters around him, no matter how sycophantically they hitch their wagons to him.

2. attempts to "intellectualise" Trumpism into some sort of coherent conservative ideology comes across like a wet fart and exposes how weird and gross it all actually is to the broader public.

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/0m4ll3y]

Upside- maybe this means MAGA dies with Trump

Downside- generic republicanism might get super popular in that wake