This is something that I have been saying for a long time now. I, from the very bottom of my heart, believe that the moment Trump dies, MAGA will die with him.

Why? It’s simple really, movements generally need to be practical, coherent, and flexible to last a long time. MAGA has none of these traits. MAGA currently stands for nothing. As a movement it has no values, no platform, no morals, and no leadership outside of Trump. Everything in the movement starts and stops with Trump. Whatever he says goes no matter how insane, nonsensical, or contradictory. Trump is the movement.

It wasn’t always this way, back during his first term, MAGA did have some ideological diversity that forced the movement to have internal discourse which kept it somewhat balanced. There were evangelists, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, moderate Republicans, and so on. However, Trump has purged them all. In fact, he has purged everything and anything capable of independent thought leaving only blind loyalists and slimy opportunists.

Without Trump acting as their de facto prophet, these yes men will immediately leech on to the first self proclaimed successor they see. MAGA will fracture and split, and the different factions will spend most of their time fighting each other. This will lead MAGA to become ineffective, and because of this, it will fade into irrelevancy with time.