# What if Trump goes TOO quietly? (A hypothetical) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 19, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365 "2020-10-19T23:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/41 "2020-10-21T22:08:23Z")
Of course he wouldn’t. Trump usually repays slavish devotion by subordinates with callous disregard. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/42 "2020-10-22T09:22:43Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Not that I expect this to happen, but it would be darkly amusing if they made that deal, Trump resigned, and then Pence didn’t pardon him. I mean, Pence would be the President, and Trump would now be a private citizen. What could Trump do about it, except whine about how unfairly he’s being treated? I could actually see that happening, if the Whitebread Sepulcher has delusions of future political relevance in a post-Trump GOP… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/43 "2020-10-23T02:26:45Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Not that I expect this to happen, but it would be darkly amusing if they made that deal, Trump resigned, and then Pence didn’t pardon him. I mean, Pence would be the President, and Trump would now be a private citizen. What could Trump do about it, except whine about how unfairly he’s being treated? Ask not for who the bus tolls… ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/44 "2020-10-23T04:56:27Z")
If Trump doesn’t win in November Pence’s political career is over. Being the running mate of a losing candidate doesn’t make you a rising star and the only thing that anyone remembers about him was the degree to which his lips were firmly attached to Trumps posterior. He’s got the reputation as a follower not a leader. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/45 "2020-10-23T13:33:30Z")
The reason that Pence hitched his wagon to $45’s campaign is _because_ his career was pretty much over. No one else wanted the job, for fear of it destroying their future political prospects. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/46 "2020-10-23T13:51:37Z")
Mike Dense coming out of the '24 primaries after four years of Trump and the kids yapping on twitter and his new tv show (and maybe even Junior throwing his hat into the ring) would be a pretty good scenario for the next Dem candidate. Former Vice President Dense will place himself in the role of “protector of the Supreme Court,” which will have spent four years duking it out with a Dem White House and Congress. Which might be enough for the remaining Trumpian base but not enough to win the support of an increasingly liberal national electorate, dismayed at the SC’s obstruction. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/47 "2020-10-23T14:08:36Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Ask not for who the bus tolls… That’s a fare pun. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365/48 "2020-10-24T02:02:17Z")
Let me off here, please. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-goes-too-quietly-a-hypothetical/923365.md?page=2)