She’s already done some damage, though, especially if the stories about her leading “tours” of insurrectionists as part of the January 6th plotting are true.
I think any copying going on is superficial (and limited, given how many know-nothing Republican idiots are now in power that have no resemblance to her). Rather than being someone who was emulated, it seems pretty clear she was just an early example of a phenomenon that erupted into full bloom under Trump. The window of acceptable Republican candidates had been shifting for a while - but didn’t really need to do much shifting in the first place, and it’s more about the shifting of the electorate, which is due to the impact of Fox and Facebook on Republican voters.
