posted by gut
Crazy thing is, if they hate Trump and MAGA so much, then killing him is about as dumb as it gets promoting JD Vance to POTUS for 8 years.
Do you think the average assassination-happy whack-job is considering the fine details like "How is this going to effect what happens even one second after I've done my thing?" After the guy who realized the best way to get to Trump was to just stake out the local golf courses got caught and his manifesto stuff started getting released, his ramblings could basically get summed up as "I have strong feelings on this. This needs to happen." And that was it. No real thought about how a successful kill shot on the guy running for president just might impact things like political races, or lead to more nutcases declaring open season on any politician they dislike or whatever. Just "Imma shoot my shot and make the world better!!!!!!".
Any rational mind can think: "Even if I think Trump is absolute shit, he's also an old man who doesn't come off as being all there in the brain nowadays and none of his followers remotely have his presence or charisma, so when nature takes its course, MAGA will likely become increasingly irrelevant as time goes on. And if he keeps getting chances to get on a stage and babble out nonsensical word salad, that descent might even happen sooner than expected." But that's not where they're at.