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Opinion: Donald Trump is fading away. Republicans ought to celebrate.
Donald Trump is fading away, getting smaller and smaller, quieter and quieter. Before long he’ll be not a kingmaker but a sad old man, begging for attention few want to give him.
To many Republicans, this is surely disorienting, particularly how fast it has happened. They so wholeheartedly built their party’s political identity around him that it can be hard to imagine a future where he doesn’t matter much anymore.
But it’s the best thing that could possibly happen to the GOP.
Just a few months ago, it seemed that Trump would rule the Republican Party for the foreseeable future. Even if he didn’t run for president again in 2024 (the idea was always improbable), just the threat that he might would restrain other potential candidates and keep his name on everyone’s lips. He’d continue to make and break careers, rewarding those who showed him sufficient loyalty and punishing those who displeased him.
Then everything changed. First came Jan. 6 and the attack on the Capitol by violent Trump supporters, which led to his second impeachment. Two days after the riot, Twitter removed him from their platform, depriving him of the medium through which he had surely planned to maintain his hold on the attention of his supporters, and a critical conduit between himself and the news media.
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