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Too online, too rigid, too weird: why Ron DeSantis failed
The New Statesman ^ | 21 January 2024 | Sohrab Ahmari

Posted on 01/21/2024 7:01:15 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal

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To: Drew68

Rhonda Santis partnered with the RINO Establishment and anyone with an IQ higher than a bowling ball could see it.


21 posted on 01/22/2024 3:01:50 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: definitelynotaliberal

He’s smart enough, he’s sold out enough (back to his Yale days), and he’s ambitious enough. But, he may just not be extroverted enough to step up successfully to the national political arena.

Meanwhile, his wife is the one with the multigenerational Deep State roots. If, as rumored, she’s looking now to run for guv in FL, she may have wanted to stop him from doing more harm to her cause—including via his relationship to Trump.


22 posted on 01/22/2024 3:04:01 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I’ve got an even better post mortem for his campaign:

When I compare Ron DeSantis to all the candidates I’ve seen in national politics over the last 35 years, the one whose personality comes closest to him was Democrat lawyer and loser John Edwards.

23 posted on 01/22/2024 3:08:12 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: gbs

“needs to get better advisors,”

I don’t think “advisors” is the right word under the circumstances. That implies that he decided to run first, and then gathered advisors.

My opinion is that he always planned to wait to run after Trump’s next term. I think he was sincere way back when he said he wouldn’t run against Trump. Then “instigators” (not advisors) showed up and plied him with incentives to jump in the race.

He should’ve waited, but now that we have to assume he’s a weak man, and easily manipulated by others. Who needs that?


24 posted on 01/22/2024 4:19:24 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: definitelynotaliberal

De Santis did not fail. He accomplished what he set out to do.

And........ who believes a word about America written by a person named Sohrab Ahmari


25 posted on 01/22/2024 4:40:49 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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When I compare Ron DeSantis to all the candidates I’ve seen in national politics over the last 35 years, the one whose personality comes closest to him was Democrat lawyer and loser John Edwards.

Oh, my goodness! I couldn't quite place it, but you've hit the nail on the head.


26 posted on 01/22/2024 8:31:16 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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