Listen, obviously I’m bad at conjecture or else I’d have totally seen this coming, but Trump is their Obama imo. He’s a singular force. Something about that dude moves people in this dumb ass country. People literally voted for Trump while voting down ballot for dems in some places. The second he’s removed from the equation, the republicans are going to have to reckon with the state of the country he’s leaving. If he enacts his objectively terrible policies and the country does go to shyt, what can Vance run on? Unless Trump sends checks again, they don’t have a way to continue to galvanize their base in 2028. (This is all assuming the very real reality that he doesn’t repeal the 22nd amendment of course).
It’s fukked up, but if I’m the Dems, I’m not resisting shyt. All I’d do is prop someone up who can effectively put Trump’s stamp on the next 4 years. This is Trumps economy. Trumps healthcare. Trumps education system. And not in that condescending, dunk on you way either. And then actually run a candidate who isn’t talking out of two sides of their mouth.
Trump is King Maker for the Republicans (hence why people get roasted by him and fall in line out of fear of being "beheaded"
Vance is being propped but by Tech Power Players, he was submitted to Trump to be made "king", notice Elon is all in the videos.
Vance being made King by Trump forever stamps him, thus he can be seen as the "unifier" of the nation being that his tone is much more calming than Trumps which will enable him to work on behalf of those who choose him.
Once again people are too caught up in Trumps theatrics which is really just used to serve as a soap opera for the powerless.