David Pakman

How do they survive as individuals after Trump?

Where do they fit in, if at all?

And what happens to the movement and the party after Trump is gone?

How do I position myself for the post Trump era?

And once that starts, it's really hard to reverse the same people who used to protect you, start hedging and distancing and building relationships that don't depend on you.

So they have something to go to once you're gone.

And so for those of us kind of waiting for the dramatic break, he does shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and lo and behold, he loses support.

That's just not the way it happens.

You've got people quietly preparing for the post Trump world and the signs are everywhere.

You've got Republicans warning about midterm losses.

Voters are questioning the decisions made by Trump.

His allies are defending him less and less aggressively and more selectively.

And Trump's political power was never about policy.

It was always about control.

People wanting to be part of a cool kids sort of group controlling the base, controlling the party, controlling the narrative.

It's all slipping.

Trump is slipping and that control is slipping.

And so what we are seeing is the classic slow realization that we're on a horse that can't get us in anywhere anymore.

And so once enough people believe that the system is going to move on and we are seeing it in real time.

How many people voted illegally in 2020?