Posted on 08/20/2023 11:05:17 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Feeling empowered after his boost from Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, a man of notoriously intemperate disposition, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis begins the process to align himself with the neocon establishment and labeling Donald Trump supporters as “listless vessels” devoid of principle, who simply “follow whatever comes down the pike from Truth Social every morning.”
Appearing with a young millennial wearing a beaver tail on his head, namely Will Witt from the Florida Standard, Ron DeSantis outlines his opinion that the MAGA movement is only driven by the support of President Donald Trump, a person who has exhausted his usefulness in awakening the electorate. As a result, the high-minded superior intellects of the Republican Party now need to step in, reestablish the core values of the conservative movement, and put the squirming MAGA children in their play pens.
You can watch the entire interview below; I’m just prompting it to the part that best highlights the sanctimonious arrogance of a dim-witted candidate who really doesn’t carry his own policies, only those of the managers and branding consultants that create his talking points. WATCH:
What the insufferable DeSantis and his branding/image consultants pretend not to know, is that President Trump’s America First policies are the driving force behind the MAGA movement. Those policies consist of three main attributes that are non-existent in any other candidate:
Immigration. The construct of a southern border wall, denial of illegal entry and a return to immigration border controls that block illegal aliens.
Economics. The implementation of MAGAnomics that puts incentives behind Made In America. Baseline tariffs on all imports. The removal of the 70-year-old one-way Marshal plan for tariffs on USA products into the EU. Reciprocal tariffs against all nations who participate in bilateral Free Trade Agreements, and a return to America first manufacturing independence.
Foreign Policy. The withdrawal of USA interventionist foreign policy. The respect of national borders and national policies that are the outcome of the independent will of people within sovereign nations. The primary responsibility of NATO funding, support and activity, to the member states of the European Union. The use of USA economic strength as a national security weapon.
Those three pillars form the baseline of the America First policy that President Trump represents. No other candidate comes even close to the policies therein. President Trump represents the vessel we are using to force the professional political class to accept these policy priorities. MAGA is a set of policies uniquely attributed to President Trump, because only Trump willingly represents those policies.
The GOPe know this; so too does Ron DeSantis and his handlers. Every candidate in the Republican field understands this set of policies, and they have been paid by the multinational donors to pretend they do not know. Their collective GOPe mission is to destroy the policy platform; therefore, they must attack the core of the Trump supporters by pretending not to know.
This guy has really turned out to be a jerk. All he had to do was stay out of the race this time and gain support from his policies and record, and he threw it ALL away. Screw this puke.
“Listless Vessel” doesn’t have quite the panache of Deplorable, but we’ll work with it.
Political suicide
Yea, since they cannot refute the message and logic from the article and the comments by GReepers supporting the message and logic, the only course of action the DeSanctimonious supporters have left is to try and shut down the discussion.
Are you from Georgia?
If so, then I’d go out on a limb and say that you’re one of the identified DeSantis supporters.
White collar, suburban, Frat boy, wears tasseled loafers, lives in somewhere in the burbs.
Anyone that pays attention to what Kemp has been doing to the state, they’d know that he’s a corrupt POS, regardless of how much he beat Abrams.
And on side note, beating Abrams by 1% in 2018 and 5% in 2022. And the only reason he got that was because he was allowed to win because he gave the Senate to the Democrats.
listless, bitter, clinger, in the basket of deplorables here, checking in.
It’s all sound bites!
The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve on behalf of the American people and that's got to be based in principle because if you're not rooted in principle. If all we are is listless vessels that's just supposed to follow you know whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth social every morning that that's not going to be a durable movement.
SoConPubbie, you’re 100% correct.
And I’m not sure going from 1% to 5% is a healthy margin that should be bragged about.
And yet these are people he needs to win over if he wants to win. So yeah. Toast.
I was souring on Desantis, but then he called me listless. Now I’m firmly behind him!
Besides, I’m not listless. I have a list right here.
He has totally blown his chance at ever being president.
Is this the replacement for phoney Mitch?
Hope DeSantis isn’t now imitating Trump — the grand master of name calling and personal attacks. Why can’t they just get together and publicly vow to stop this BS?
Insult the voting base. A winning strategy. 😆
Is that why Trump can get more people out for a rally or protest than any other Republican politician?
It sounds more like DeSantis misspoke than he was trying to make a cogent point.
He broke the Reagan rule.
Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, and Sean Hannity filled in for Rush when he was away sometimes.
I would not attach too much importance to that.
Careful throwing your insults... you may need US someday.... We sure know first hand we cannot trust the likes of you.
Like every other establishment puppet, he fails to realize Trump represents the base. The base doesn't blind follow him. He's earned our trust.
DeSantis is unfit for any office. He's in complete control of the GOP donors and establishment. And, that is totally unacceptable.
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