Unfortunately, I don't think Trumpism is going anywhere soon. There's are a lot of radical Right Wing Media personalities who won't be able to pivot off of Trump b/c they're too personally invested in the alternate realities they helped create. It's now reached a point where...1/
....demand/consumption of disinformation by Right Wing consumers, rather that supply, will drive/dictate the narrative of Trumpism. As explained here: 2/

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10 Nov
In 2016, half the country fell into despair when they watched a sociopathic narcissist win a potentially compromised presidential election.

For many, Trump triggered previous traumatic experiences with similarly disordered people and relationships. 1/
The Right rolled their eyes....

.....reveled in the collective anxiety....

.....they wore, "F*ck your feelings", t-shirts....

.....and made mocking/antagonizing statements about the rest of the country being "snowflakes"....

.....about liberal tears tasting delicious..... 2/
.....and dismissively labeled the legitimate, rational reaction to Trump's psychopathology as "Trump Derangement Syndrome": 3/
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7 Nov
Let's be clear. The patronizing stroking that we're now seeing from Right Wing Media Echo Chamber sycophants is not an appeal to preserve Trump's "legacy"...

.....it's the desperate manipulation of his narcissism with the hope that it disarms his democracy destroying sociopathy.
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6 Nov
Addiction is related to the neurotransmitter "dopamine".

Fear is related to loss.

Trump has exploited the fear/loss dynamic with "Make America Great Again", which exploits fear of cultural/white nationalistic "loss".

Add in a healthy dose of dopamine (addiction): "Trumpism":1/
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5 Nov
There was an argument among Never-Trumpers about whether to "Burn it all down". The @SteveSchmidtSES/@Timodc/@SykesCharlie faction wanted to extinguish the scourge that metastasized into the "Trickle Down Pathology"
of Trumpism....1/
thebulwark.com/burn-it-all-do…
The @DavidAFrench faction wanted to split the needle (Beat Trump/GOP hold the Senate) so that the institutions of government that the GOP attempted to dismantle would contain the Democrats when they came into power. 2/
Well.....there was a flaw in the @DavidAFrench, split-the-needle philosophy.......because it presupposed a peaceful transition of power. Whether or not it remains peaceful is yet to be determined. But we're a long way from any transition of power......3/
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