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Mmm. Nah.
GOP is going to have an evergreen issue post Trump that is directly related to their dependence on conspiratorial thinking for base maintenance. Because they rely on it so heavily for their own propaganda, there will be a significant cohort of their base for whom "Elvis never died".
And even with out that, the one truly pure signal we have from about 10 years of Trump engaging in electoralism, is that there is no other Trump. His weird ability to upset polls does not translate to other candidates in a meaningful way, because he's never been building a movement that can be handed off; he's only ever been building himself up. When he is gone, all of that goes with him.
Republicans will be in a multi-decade long rebuilding phase post Trump.
I mean.. I think the "Elvis never died" crowd might feel differently if Elvis was shot in the head during a televised moment in front of hundreds/thousands of eye witnesses. Harder to argue with missing skull & brain matter than an unceremonious "off-screen" death. Feels like they would have been able to actually whip up a frenzy with the martyr angle, especially if shooter was convenient for demonizing demographics.
That would have been the craziest footage of all time had it hit the mark. Wild how quick that story faded into the background.
January 6th was a HOAX!
Lol touche 😑