Donald Trump is not a stable person...

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20. The fact that he is still roaming the grounds freely suggests he is still useful to the powerful.

Trump's reign continues despite the obvious mental decline that exacerbates his lifelong sociopathic behavior. Trump is useful because he breaks things that others want to see broken. He has demonstrated many times over that he can get away with destructive behavior that would lead to an immediate downfall for others.

One thing that I think helps keeps him in place is the belief that his designated replacement, J. D. Vance, lacks both MAGA cred and the ability to lie to peoples' faces like he believes a word he is saying. Vance is equally repulsive in his own way but he is no Donald Trump.

Another difficulty for those using him is that I think he is kept in place by an informal coalition of oligarchs who have overlapping but different agendas. He continues to be useful to some while his increasingly reckless behavior is viewed as a threat by others. I doubt that there is a single faction that can unilaterally remove him and inertia will keep him in place until there is some kind of consensus among the looting elite.