Trump has hinted repeatedly that he might make another run for the presidency in 2024. Were he to be impeached, even if he were not dethroned (the Senate is still unlikely to convict), he might still be barred from holding public office. The message that would send to others who might govern in his mold would be an important one.
But there might be a down-side; if he is barred from running again, others may take up the mantle. While Don Jr. is might try, my hunch (assuming he's not in jail) is that he'd not get the nomination; it would likely go to someone like Hawley or Cruz. Both have been keen to ride Trump's train and their shenanigans in the Senate on Insurrection Day were intended to lay the groundwork for a 2024 run.
What makes that troubling is that they are both clearly far more intelligent than Trump and are therefore much less likely to make the kind of miss-steps he has made. That makes them more effective and hence more dangerous. One can only hope that the revulsion at the events of January 6th will be remembered long enough and their names along with it that they won't be able to keep driving the train in the nihilistic populist direction Trump set.
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