Regardless of the quality of potential successors, his supporters will still be there after and their core beliefs won't be any different after he's gone.
No, they hold core positions that not even Trump could switch them on. Like imagine if Trump reversed all his positions on immigration? They're not going to go along with that.
The lines between their in group and the out groups they target don't depend on Trump. He's just very effective at wielding them.
You're just talking about Republicans. Having a problem with how immigration was, mask mandates, "forced" vaccination, boys in girls sports, etc are pretty mainstream issues. Despite what the "very online" crowd thinks (including most of the media), those are very normal opinions.
The MAGA crowd aren't the same. MAGA dies with Trump. Nobody is going to get away with saying what Trump did about McCain post Trump. Nobody else is going to try this tariff nonsense. Nobody else is going to send the national guard to American cities.
Trump has extreme solutions to main stream gripes. The gripes will stay, the solutions won't.
