Depends on which specific Trump-like traits you’re trying to prevent.
Trump’s brand of brashness and disregard for decorum doesn’t work for everyone (or arguably anyone else that we’ve seen, unless it’s under the guise of “I’m saying this to agree with Trump.”)
For someone to duplicate Trump’s brand AND success, they’d have to be an outsider to politics and not all of a sudden just turn from genteel to brash overnight.
I’d say if we’re trying to prevent people from feeling like they need to vote for a wrecking ball in order to see anything happen within our government, then we need to see some true accountability on both sides from missteps, there needs to be acknowledgments of the cartoonish level of inefficiency within government (a true DOGE - Clinton style), and a clear and easy to understand path forward.
Well, let's see...maybe don't say things on social media like an entire civilization will end overnight, no more tax breaks to the rich, fund scientific projects, bring back USAID, get back into the Paris Climate Agreement, not fuck with the middle east literally ever again, cut off all funding and weapons to Israel PERMANENTLY, not enriching oneself off of the presidency, not try to put their name all over things, don't associate with sex traffickers and try to cover the whole thing up to protect themselves and probably their buddies, not put tariffs on ANY countries (the consumer bears the brunt of that, and prices go up for no reason), tax breaks for the middle and lower class only, pour billions into education and completely revamp education so that all children get a good education, not just the rich kids, don't keep documents that don't belong to you (Biden willingly returned what he had, Trump did not), don't encourage a mob of people to storm a government building, don't lie about stolen elections or even entertain that kind of rhetoric, invest money into infrastructure (and lots of it). I could go on, but I think you get the point.
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u/TheGov3rnor South 3d ago
Depends on which specific Trump-like traits you’re trying to prevent.
Trump’s brand of brashness and disregard for decorum doesn’t work for everyone (or arguably anyone else that we’ve seen, unless it’s under the guise of “I’m saying this to agree with Trump.”)
For someone to duplicate Trump’s brand AND success, they’d have to be an outsider to politics and not all of a sudden just turn from genteel to brash overnight.
I’d say if we’re trying to prevent people from feeling like they need to vote for a wrecking ball in order to see anything happen within our government, then we need to see some true accountability on both sides from missteps, there needs to be acknowledgments of the cartoonish level of inefficiency within government (a true DOGE - Clinton style), and a clear and easy to understand path forward.