Indeed there has been increasing speculative chatter of late about Trump -- with the help of right-wing media entrepreneurs Steve Bannon and perhaps, Roger Ailes -- making this effort to parlay his election loss into a sure-fire, multi-pronged funds-generating conglomerate comprised of as many as three politically-oriented entities:
Trump PAC -- To further milk funds from the estimated 35 to 40 million people who are expected to vote for him on November 8.
Trump TV -- Alternately known as "Breitbart of the Airwaves" or "Breitbart/InfoWars." A Steve Bannon-inspired, further far-right version of FOX News focusing on stoking fake Alex Jones-like conspiracies and peddling James O'Keefe's "sting" footage of bootleg outrages for use as fund-raising hooks.
A Third Party -- Another fundraising mechanism that will undoubtedly be called the TRUMP Party. To maintain a sense of hope among his followers about the prospect of a re-match in 2020 against "Crooked Hillary." It will also create an avenue of financial and other support to help move a new wave of Trump disciples into politics -- in other words, Trump's children.
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Even in loss it seems certain that because of the unstable emotional make-up of its leader, the Trump Era is likely to intensify the current cultural disarray within America's social environment. The good news is that it's the same instability that is likely to render the Trump Era as one that will be relatively short-lived. Trump, as is his history, will quickly figure a way to spectacularly blow the whole thing up so thoroughly that it may never be resurrected by a more emotionally stable messenger. It's doesn't take a fortune teller to predict that Trump's grandiose ignorance and bottomless capacity for over-the-top self-delusion will result in a plan that simply pushes his next ventures down the same road of colossal failure taken by the overwhelming majority of his previous get-rich-quick schemes.
Nevertheless, however unlikely, for any number of reasons, a Trump victory won't ever result in the construction of an actual physical wall (which Trump is now saying will paid for by America up-front with Mexico later ponying the cash via some unspecified "re-imbursement" process).
But on the other hand, his loss only increases the likelihood that a wall would be built. But that structure would be illusory; just a symbolic barrier erected in Trump and his follower's own minds. Even so, the ultimate failure of even a wall that is symbolic would be in its design. Indeed, Trump's symbolic wall would be higher, thicker, more expansive, and far more expensive in terms of its cost to America's social fabric. But it will ultimately, fail because the barrier created would be strong enough to separate not just Mexico and the rest of the western hemisphere from America, but Americans from each other.
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