Trump will somehow avoid any real legal consequences as he has his entire life.
Oh, he’ll get sued, he’ll settle and get some other suckers to pay it off, meanwhile tweeting about it all being part of the same fraud that stole the elections, and in 2020 all Republicans running in every race really won landslides. As evidence look at how many people were in Republican rallies compared to Democratic ones; they weren’t even close and that proves it.
And the same idiots will believe it all and worship him as their orange-bronze idol.
The actual Republican politicians who lost power though… That I’m not so sure about. We’re already seeing blowback where some of them are openly blaming him for losing the Senate, and I see the warnings about the danger of attacking the integrity of the Electoral College (which Republicans leaned on time and again to win) as an implied plea to stop following Trump’s lead. I do think we see a growing schism in the party going into 2021.
The problem though is that the schism seems to be the older, more traditional Republicans trying to pull away from Trump, while the younger ones insist that “this is the way” as if they are Trumpalorians. If that continues, Trumpism may end up growing in the party as the young blood replaces old, and even if he‘a gone his influence will linger. Like an orange cancer spreading through our political process.
My hope is that as he gets more unhinged, that ends up tarnishing his legacy enough that the movement dies out like an embarrassing fad.