Sure, there was the attempted assassination of Reagan and the fears for Obama as the first black President, but in those cases it was a lone nutter rather than a conspiracy.

How long can Trump crash the market before an angry billionaire decides to take him out? The remaining Koch brother is already pouring money into legal challenges against Trump…

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    He certainly has a lot of enemies but I don’t think it’s likely with his upped security being President again. I still can’t believe we were an inch short of a Trump free world…

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      I don’t know that would solve everything anyway. Worst case, he’d become some kind of martyr.

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        I’d take that chance.

        He’s a cult leader. Cults tend to collapse after the cult leader dies. It was so close to the election I don’t think there would have been enough support for another Republican to win in the chaos that would have ensued within the Republican party.

        It almost certainly would have resulted in a better future.

        Kid shouldn’t have aimed for the head. Harder to hit and nothing there anyway.

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        Back then I don’t know who could have picked up the reins and taken over.

        Vance didn’t have the following he has now.

        Ramaswamy wasn’t white enough (I don’t think it’s possible for the right or center to vote non-white-male for president.)

        Nikki wouldn’t have worked either, she couldn’t be dumpy and she also didn’t have a penis.

        So it’s hard to say. I think the magat mentality is here to stay regardless of if dumpy is around, but the absolute control of the party probably wouldn’t survive him.

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          The magat mentality is the same mentality from southern slaveowners. The secessionists were given free reign to join back into society without serious repercussions and their ideas lived on with them.

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        In fact, I think that if he were to die right now he would be immediately elevated to martyrdom - that being the catalyst for martial law.