What happens to Trumps supporters when he leaves the WH?

[SummerSnow]

I think he will lose his election and his base will go to war. They will leave the Republican party and start their own party.

[jcgoldie]

1. Eh don't think so...

Pretty sure they will just go back to the wal-mart for some cheap chinese shit and watching football on the sofa... back under their rocks.

[Ohiogal]

2. I agree jcgoldie

They aren't smart enough to form a new party. They will just slowly fade away. Probably we'll hear an utterance or two from one of them, something stupid or hateful, but that will be all.

[jcgoldie]

6. I mean I don't think they can be ignored...

That racism is there and it isn't going away anytime soon not even when Trump's gone. You look at Trump's 40% approval and the senate results in Missouri and Indiana, the mess in Florida, and you can see it. They don't support him in spite of his ignorance and racism, they applaud those characteristics that's what makes him one of them. I think we were too complacent when Obama got elected we thought the world had been fixed and there was a happy ending. Meanwhile these scared people doubled down on the good old days of white privilege... but I don't see them rebelling or forming a party on what they all know is a shameful message. Hopefully when Trump goes down in humiliation and disgrace they will take their hatred and fear back into the shadows to stew and only answer to the GOP dogwhistles as before.

[DFW]

3. They become Pence supporters. n/t

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, this is the most likely outcome. n/t

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[hexola]

9. makes you wonder if the stories about Trump questioning Pence's loyalty are messages to the base

"Don't Trust Pence"

[NewJeffCT]

13. Some of them will, but I doubt anywhere close to all of them.

I doubt all of them. Pence will get the evangelicals that support Trump, but not the "Deplorabe" white working-class racists. Pence has the charisma of a dead fish and was way underwater in red Indiana as governor. Trump is a horrible person, but he has a charisma to his base that drives them to turn out and vote for Trump.

[DFW]

16. Pence is not as easy to get used to

But he has been a nice loyal lapdog to Trump, and can count on him to tell people that Pence is "the new me." Depending on the timing, the radical right won't have time to organize another standard bearer before 2020. They will if Trump abdicates in the next 6 months, but later then that, the tired old clown circus of Gingrich/Perry/Romney/etc. won't be around to offer even token opposition. Maybe Tom Cotton can add some new blood, although whether or not his is even human is questionable.

[LexVegas]

4. They have to start wearing their hoods again.

[irisblue]

8. They really haven't taken them off, just red caps in daylight.

[roscoeroscoe]

10. Tea Party II

They are very good at shedding the skin and coming back again with a new brand, falling in on the next snake oil salesman. I mean, they'll fall in line with Ben Carson or Scott Walker if they are annointed.

Trump who? Never heard of him.

[Kurt V.]

12. this is the most likely scenario

[jcgoldie]

14. Ben Carson?

He's ignorant enough, but there's something about him that I think would turn off the MAGAts, can't quite put my finger on it...

[samnsara]

11. they will follow him everywhere.. he will get them pumped up to vote for..

..candidates that he can manipulate. He will have his on tv station. I fear he will be much more dangerous as a private citizen. Not sure how much crime he can commit however since those pesky Secret Service men will be tagging along.

[safeinOhio]

15. I say we just give them

rakes.

[ProudLib72]

17. They shit themselves and go into hiding again

Thus endeth the Cult of 45

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

18. Hopefully, they go back to watching pro sports

and they just stay the hell out of it. Everyone would be a lot happier that way.

[Celerity]

19. I think even more than Pence, the demon to watch is the despicable scum Tom Cotton from Arkansas

He is MAGA dangerous, intelligent, ruthless, deffo a white nationalist hidden under an actual military AND Ivy league veneer. I see a complete Handmaiden's Tale commander in that fucker.

His motto: America has an UNDER incarceration problem.



he even does a seasonal Commander's beard look




Tom Cotton Is the Worst Bully in the Senate — Here Are 10 Reasons Why

From Guantanamo to Iran, food stamps to women’s rights, here are ten reasons why Tom Cotton is a dangerous dude.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/tom-cotton-is-the-worst-bully-in-the-senate_b_6855826.html

[Cartoonist]

20. They need a new pied piper

Names mentioned upthread aren't likely. Someone like David Duke has the creds.

The candidate must be white, rich, racist, sexist, and above all, a nationalist. Oh, and no experience necessary.

Ted Nugent?

[comradebillyboy]

21. They will continue to be deplorable.