It must surely be imminent. He’s not in the best health if the reports about him eating mcdonalds all the time are true. He’s 79 which isn’t that old but I dont see many fat, stressed 90 year olds on a mcdonalds diet.
Say he had a heart attack next week… then what? Presumably Vance would take over as actual president, but I can’t imagine anyone being as bad as him. Would the maga movement continue with a different cult leader? Do you think things would meaningfully change?
It won’t make things better all on its own. The things that enable and create him are still around. I mean, unless there was like a plane with a whole lot of republicans and billionaires all together and it went down in a fiery crash with no survivors. That might make a big enough vacuum for change.
I think it will result in a short-term improvement, though - they won’t have a dotard Great Leader with only completely subservient yes-men surrounding him. Whoever replaces him will still be an intensely selfish and self-interested person, of course, but at least they’ll be sane enough to understand that their self-interest isn’t best served by randomly launching wars like the Iran debacle.
It’ll give the rest of the world a bit more breathing room and time to divest themselves from the US more effectively. So when the next Trump comes along he’ll have less power.