I’ve long suspected that MAGA will quickly fall apart following Trump’s death, or at least splinter violently into dozens of factions. Trump is too much of a cult of personality for that power to be neatly handed down to any one successor; even if the GOP brass bend the knee to Vance, I still think the people themselves are going to cannibalize him and each other over not being “Trump” enough.

Maybe that’s wishful thinking though. I can only hope.