# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250 "2023-05-19T03:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1106
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1106 "2023-07-30T23:44:18Z")
In my more negative moods I’ve certainly posted the same idea\*. They will either burn themselves out while in power in an orgy of destruction, or out of power in an orgy of impotent rage. But burn they must; it’s the only way they’ll ever calm down. You and I agree the latter is the preferable path. A _different_ opposition could arise to replace the formal organization called the “Republican Party”. And standing for a different and more mainstream grab-bag of policies. But even that must be after the immolation is well under way. The legal arrangements in all 50 states mean they can’t be displaced by the voting public as can happen in other systems. * * * \*. See here for example. Although the thread was about a different topic, my post was about Authoritarianism: > [@If there really any point to mass shooting threads in MPSIMS anymore?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-really-any-point-to-mass-shooting-threads-in-mpsims-anymore/982460/16): > > Yes. This is day to day life. And it is insane. But there’s no point in us here on SDMB wasting further electrons on it. Y’all can help yourself as much as you’re willing, but I won’t. Since you’re the OP it sounds like you won’t either. You’re frustrated, but you’re not in a head-banging mood any more. IMO: Until we’ve had a revolution and new constitution, and following the deaths of millions, not thousands, nothing can change. Because the idjits who like things as they are now are … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250)._