and rational thought and that is my problem.

I mean, politically how in the hell is the MAGA base going to suffer financially with huge price gouging, etc yet continue to support the person responsible for so many of their current and future financial losses? On a personal level, even his base has to buy food and they can not afford it either.

This increase should be the nail in his political coffin. I just do not understand the reasoning at all.

will be a strong replacement for f45. If JD could replace f45, the oligarchs would have done it before the end of the first week of f45 being in office.

still need t for a few months longer. I won't make a hard bet on it, but probably by a few months into 2026 t will be gone and v in his place. V doesn't really give a shit that he isn't popular; he just wants the office.

the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society and Billionaires. Trump has nothing to do with it. His job is to create havoc and distraction. That is all… Oh yeah. And keeping himself out of prison.
Vance is their guy lock, stock and barrel.
It is only going to get worse.

will have the same gusto for Vance as they do for tRump?

his base becomes irrelevant to the real drivers of this authoritarian turn as long as they continue to go after those his base hate to placate them.
Frankly, Vance becomes irrelevant. He will only be a figurehead.

In addition, Vance doesn't have the "charisma" and hold on MAGAts like TSF. They want Trump, and only Trump. Take no substitutes.

Project 2025 is fueling the craziness and is/was the point: a revolution (bloodless, the originators said) and the subsequent, ongoing dismantling of the American experiment.

The 'bloodless' would be determined if Democrats complied, acquiesced.

F*ck that!