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You've hit the nail on the head. As weird and hard to believe as it seems right now, it's not Trump himself who will be our biggest problem in the mid to long term. It's who ever comes after him who he and his followers are paving the way for now.
Trump so far has been of a somewhat limited dangerousness for freedom and democracy so far, not because his views and convictions are not dangerous enough, but because he's simply too incompetent to be properly dangerous. There is a good likelihood that whoever comes after him will be a lot more competent.
CoughVanceCough. He is bright & very smart, powerful, and young. His Munich speech for example, even though too many of my EU fellow citizens (and representatives as well) dismissed it as non-sense and mean, was quite articulated (very hypocritical too, but that's not the point) and, well, quite informative on what the USA want to do and what the USA will do.
And so is Bessent, in a less rhetorician way even though I don't imagine him becoming a leader but that's just my gut feeling ;)
My bet is on Musk taking Trump's place.