I think the issue is Trump has always been weird so any decline is compared to that instead of what's expected of a leader. I can't recall hearing him answering a question that was asked with a direct answer this year. It's always some rambling mess or he just answers with some other point.
I can't recall that since 2016. He's always just shovelled bullshit and spouted off whatever nonsense.
All the stuff people are talking about is shit he's been doing since 2016, its just in bigger spurts because he's older.
You don't think Turmp will do mass deportations? He might try to do them in such a stupid manner that they get overruled by courts (although that's more doubtful with the SCROTUS), but I don't think there's any doubt he would do them, and ASAP. I mean, did you already forget that the splitting families to deport the parents happened under his rule?
I don't think Republicans can do that. MAGA will turn against them. And they are the ones making the threats. If they pull Turmp out, they will show up like Jan 6 again, only this time, they'll be carrying addresses of Republicans with them. Unless Republicans are willing to go to war with the people that put them in power, they aren't gonna do jack shit about Turmp, the only way he'll be removed from office by them is to die.
I'm not so sure about JD Vance. If Turmp dies, I doubt Vance lasts long in office before Republicans yank him out, because he doesn't fit in with them and there's about zero chance he doesns't do something catastrophically stupid. He's a lapdog, and no one but Peter Thiel likes him (and I don't think Thiel is exactly popular or even wants to be popular with Republicans, he thinks he's above them and he's also into the shit that average Republicans are taught to hate, he's the nearest equivalent to Dracula we've probably ever had). He has no actual leadership skills or anything, he's just a follower who mimics others and gets all his thoughts from somewhere else. That will trash Republicans worse than anything Turmp has done because liberals already find him to be a reprehensible creep (and they'll be able to exploit the hell out of his thin skin, just keep calling him a fucking weirdo), and conservatives will see him for the fucking weird creep he is while he also just fails. Further, he is exactly what they've been railing against for decades now, well educated, out of touch, no thoughts or ideals of his own, weakass simp. The Turmpers believe his Hillbilly Elegy, but everyone else knows its full of shit and it will become apparent very quickly. He'll be embarrassing internationally (outside of sucking Bibi's dick). He'll end up looking like he belongs at the kids table. He might legit start sucking Putin's dick live on TV if given the opportunity.