But I doubt he plays any significant roll. They'll probably break out George P. Bush.

That they can't even invite to the next convention.

The woman losing her shit over Harry Potter as a wizard was priceless...so is the gibberish spouting "speaking in tongues"...but those kids...man do I pity them.

You disappear after you're defeated or your time is up. It benefits them both. The GOP gets to move on and claim the next guy as hand-chosen by God to get all the stuff done that God had ordained the previous guy to do, and the previous guy retires and keeps his activities on the down-lo, maybe talking to various conservative groups for a nice fee, etc. Our people seem to start foundations to help people and thus stay in the limelight a little longer.

TlalocW

whether disgraced or not.

Reality:

* During each and every GOP presidential run, GOP operatives score huge incremental victories toward dismantling the good parts of our government. They always do damage beyond what we can repair in adjacent terms and good luck these days with raising taxes.

* Each of the GOP ex-presidents get to enjoy the life of a king until death, no matter what we think of them.

KY

I think of that story, don’t remember if it was a book or not. They sent a traitor to sea and forever wouldn’t let him touch land anywhere. It think it was done via the navy and they’d just transfer him from ship to ship. I think they didn’t even allow him to hear news about the country. It was fiction of course. I guess you couldn’t really make that work nowadays and the part about being disavowed by your homeland wouldn’t really bother trump but cutting him off from all news especially anything about him would be good. Actually that would be good in the case of him going to prison, let him know that no one knows or cares about him at all.

There is a clear pattern...

that is the pre ordained excuse trumpists are going to use some time down the road.

Bullshit. You know who he is NOW, and have just been looking the other way all the time. You watched it happen in real time day after day after day.

I'm going to get right up in the face of every trumpist who pulls that shit down the line.

for the potential drop-aways you're talking about to separate themselves emotionally and morally from the Southern conservative mentality that's taken over the Republican Party.

Remember, the authoritarians on the far right are a minority who can't elect anyone beyond local office on their own. Ideally, their remnants would retreat to their own bitter little factional box again.

just as Obama was blamed for Bush crash and never given credit for recovery

Lame ducks will be more relevant by then

nm

Not saying their mass social psychopathy couldn't continue, but effects of anything have a way of effecting change.

"The Only Thing That Remains Constant Is Change." Scientific American quoting Heraclitus 2500 years of roiling change later.

I can't see that anyone would want to donate money to set it up; once Trump is out of office, his influence is nil, apart from the QAnon types (who will mostly move on to some new obsession anyway.) There will be an awful lot of "Trump, you say? Was he on TV in the noughties? Trashy real estate developer in the 80s? Never met him, myself. No one had a good word to say about him."

I don't think he has any real friends who'd give money without expecting something in return. And the family will be saving their money for lawyers. And might stop him from using Trump Corporation money on it.

and no way to rid themselves of that because We WILL NEVER LET THEM