No man. In that hypothetical, you would have had a civil war on your hands with Trump as a martyr.
All of his devout cultists would have gone out to actually just murder every “lib”. If you think his cult is a terrorist organisation now, you can’t imagine how bad it would’ve been with him dead.
Murdering the figurehead of a violent movement doesn’t dissipate the impetus, it causes it to explode in every direction.
Look up the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, or Inukai Tsuyoshi, hell even Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The death of an evil figurehead is not always the best path forward, because ideally we would want to avoid generalised death, destruction and bloodshed as much as possible.
A civil war might have had less casualties than ending USAID, putting Hegseth in charge of Israel and Iran, and the potential end of US Democracy as a whole. Russia and China aren’t any calmer or less bold by the Trump admin obtaining power, we’re a step closer to widespread war and potential global nuclear annihilation every passing moment.
Clearly the examples you gave aren’t worse outcomes than the Weimar Republic bending over and letting the Nazi Party take power.
This is complete conjecture, you might have just ended up with President JD Vance and no civil war, but a deeply - if not-more authoritarian US administration driven by vengeance that is also more capable.
I really can’t imagine any timeline where Vance is popular. Even republicans think he’s a fat dumb baby. He has less support from Republicans than Hillary had from democrats, which is a pretty stark departure from their usual fall in line behavior. Either way, as I stated, if they knew they weren’t bulletproof it might put a little more caution in their step. For all we know, the attempt’s on Trump’s life and the protests in DC and other cities are what has kept Trump and the SCOTUS from pulling a complete coup.
The Presidential candidate being shot changes thing up quite a bit in this scenario. And I see nothing in how they behave to think they would rein anything in as a response to this beyond not appearing in public themselves personally.
No man. In that hypothetical, you would have had a civil war on your hands with Trump as a martyr.
All of his devout cultists would have gone out to actually just murder every “lib”. If you think his cult is a terrorist organisation now, you can’t imagine how bad it would’ve been with him dead.
Murdering the figurehead of a violent movement doesn’t dissipate the impetus, it causes it to explode in every direction.
Look up the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, or Inukai Tsuyoshi, hell even Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The death of an evil figurehead is not always the best path forward, because ideally we would want to avoid generalised death, destruction and bloodshed as much as possible.
A civil war might have had less casualties than ending USAID, putting Hegseth in charge of Israel and Iran, and the potential end of US Democracy as a whole. Russia and China aren’t any calmer or less bold by the Trump admin obtaining power, we’re a step closer to widespread war and potential global nuclear annihilation every passing moment.
Clearly the examples you gave aren’t worse outcomes than the Weimar Republic bending over and letting the Nazi Party take power.
This is complete conjecture, you might have just ended up with President JD Vance and no civil war, but a deeply - if not-more authoritarian US administration driven by vengeance that is also more capable.
I really can’t imagine any timeline where Vance is popular. Even republicans think he’s a fat dumb baby. He has less support from Republicans than Hillary had from democrats, which is a pretty stark departure from their usual fall in line behavior. Either way, as I stated, if they knew they weren’t bulletproof it might put a little more caution in their step. For all we know, the attempt’s on Trump’s life and the protests in DC and other cities are what has kept Trump and the SCOTUS from pulling a complete coup.
The Presidential candidate being shot changes thing up quite a bit in this scenario. And I see nothing in how they behave to think they would rein anything in as a response to this beyond not appearing in public themselves personally.