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Originally Posted by Traum

Oh I am aware one of the anti-Trump side's goals is to prevent him from ever running again in future presidential elections. Personally, I am not convinced this is a good move because:

1) the Democrats have 8 days. Is there really enough time to complete all the required legal steps to successfully conclude an impeachment? Pence is unlikely to invoke the 25th Amendment to kick Trump out.

2) even if the Democrats have successfully impeached Trump, the polarization of the US population does not change one bit. In fact, getting Trump impeached might only make the matter worse. If you are at all familiar with the Prime Ministership in Thailand, you will know that even though the extremely popular Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted, the next several Thai PMs were pretty much considered to be either Thaksin's proxies or his spiritual successors. The red-yellow division in Thailand remained strong for quite some time after Thaksin got kicked out. Currently, there is no indication of anyone in the Trump camp to step into a Trump proxy / successor role like that, but I would be completely unsurprised if Ivanka were to give it a go at the next or one of the future presidential elections.

Trumpism is alive and a reality that the US will continue to deal with for some time. It is not just going to die off by barring Trump from future presidential elections.

trump lost the election and no one in the republican party wants another trump family member/proxy rfunning for prez. The trump name is trash.