{"id":41955,"date":"2025-02-13T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41955"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:35:13","slug":"a-word-to-the-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/13\/a-word-to-the-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word To The Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It strikes me that the MAGA<\/strong> crowd may be not only moving into a treacherous and unfamiliar political geography, but that their unflinching support for the President will leave them vulnerable. President Trump is not likely to be President in four years. I don’t know it for certain, and I don’t know the method of his exit, whether its resignation, 25th Amendment, or chased bodily from the country by angry citizens, an old-fashioned Greek tradition.<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t matter. In the end, the MAGA<\/strong> crowd, which has been enjoying, if only in its own eyes, an enhanced social position with their leader in the President’s seat, may suddenly experience a roller-coaster drop in social position, as the President seems to be trying to destroy his reputation.<\/p>\n

It’s something to keep in mind. Clinging madly to the President even as his reputation falls down a well will not preserve their social position, it’ll destroy it. Past performance is not a predictor of future performance, as the financial professionals’ saying goes. Don’t cling to your stocks in the buggy-whip company when the President goes over the edge, if I may mix my metaphors recklessly.<\/p>\n

Think about your exit strategy from MAGA<\/strong>, and do it now. There may not be time when the bottom drops out. Figure out what it would take to declare that you’ve forsaken MAGA<\/strong> and the President. It’ll be hard, but despite the proclamations of the President’s supporters, it all rings hollow. They’re there to pick over the remnants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It strikes me that the MAGA crowd may be not only moving into a treacherous and unfamiliar political geography, but that their unflinching support for the President will leave them vulnerable. President Trump is not likely to be President in four years. I don’t know it for certain, and I \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41958,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41955\/revisions\/41958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}