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MAGA is a bunch of different groups with mutually conflicting agendas. Libertarians hate tariffs, anti-vaxers don't like that Operation Warp Speed did its job, and Christian Nationalists hate just about everyone. What keeps them from fighting each other is Trump, and Trump alone.
That's how cults of personality often work. As soon as the personality in questions dies, all this infighting shatters the group. Rarely, a cult of personality can convert into a cult of ideas, but it's very difficult to pull off. Mormons did when Joseph Smith died, but for every success story, there's 100 more little cults you've never heard of that never worked out after the leader died or went to jail.
They cannot replace him. They can try, but it's almost certainly going to fail. Trying to replace him before he dies would only make the fracture even more severe, because now his name becomes a rallying cry for the "true believers".
Which is why all the factions are trying to get their agenda advanced as quickly as possible before he croaks. The techno-feudalist side had the advantage with their boy JD poised to take over but removing him is much more politcally viable for the Christian nationalists in congress