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Jamelle Bouie writes that Ron DeSantis lacks the ‘soft edges and eccentricity’ of the actual Donald Trump
Twitchy ^ | 17 Sep 2022 | Bret T

Posted on 09/17/2022 6:58:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Now that the walls are closing in on Donald Trump, the New York Times is ramping up its hit pieces on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The standard argument against DeSantis for president is that he’s “MAGA-adjacent” — he might not be Trump, but he’s just as bad as Trump. But what if we’ve already turned the corner and are arguing that DeSantis is worse than Trump? The current Republican is always worse than the previous Republican, after all.

Jamelle Bouie has an opinion piece in the New York Times on “What the Martha’s Vineyard Stunt Says About the Trump Wannabes,” and of course the focus is Trump-wannabe DeSantis.

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Ron DeSantis “may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actual Donald Trump,” writes @jbouie.

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Emphasis mine...

So now the attacks against Governor DeSantis will ramp up?

1 posted on 09/17/2022 6:58:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Walls aren’t closing in on Donald Trump.


2 posted on 09/17/2022 7:00:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rummyfan

The narrative will be, if you thought Trump was Hitler, now DeSantis is really, really, really Hitler. The left uses the same old tricks.


3 posted on 09/17/2022 7:01:56 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Rummyfan

The walls have been closing in on Trump for 8 years. It has only made his world bigger. Get a life, chump.


4 posted on 09/17/2022 7:03:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: Rummyfan; Joe Brower

Ron DeSantis is a big meanie. /sarc


5 posted on 09/17/2022 7:03:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Rummyfan

DeSantis seems part of the plan to wound and diminish Trump ahead of the Mid-Term Elections.

I don’t care I support Trump and if DeSantis wants to come around and made a speech that’s fine no need to fight but I want DeSantis to toughen up to more than shuffling illegals across state lines.

The flights need to go in a southward direction if you get my drift.


6 posted on 09/17/2022 7:06:17 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Rummyfan

Same old game. When Trump is dead and gone, and DeSantis is president in, say, 2032, the New York Times will refurbish Trump as “reasonable” and “missed”. All retired and dead Republicans are redrawn as positive foils to the current “ogre” in the White House.


7 posted on 09/17/2022 7:08:04 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: ifinnegan
Walls aren’t closing in on Donald Trump.

No, they are not and I don't agree with Jamelle's opinion of DeSantis either. I don't think of him as hard-edged at all. He simply doesn't suffer fools and that is in no way mean.

8 posted on 09/17/2022 7:11:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Rummyfan

Ron DeSantis “may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actual Donald Trump,”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Good! I don’t want him to be my pastor. I want him to be able to kick ass and take names, and hopefully run out of ink very quickly!


9 posted on 09/17/2022 7:13:44 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Nextrush
DeSantis seems part of the plan to wound and diminish Trump ahead of the Mid-Term Elections.

Absurd!

10 posted on 09/17/2022 7:16:02 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Rummyfan

Is this a joke?


11 posted on 09/17/2022 7:17:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: Nextrush

Spot on! DeSantis is a favorite of democrat trolls. I wonder why?


12 posted on 09/17/2022 7:17:16 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Rummyfan

Time us conservatives tell the leftists to take a hike (f.o.).


13 posted on 09/17/2022 7:18:35 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Trump or DeSantis. May the best man win. I support either or both.

I won’t tear one down to get the other.


14 posted on 09/17/2022 7:19:58 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: CaptainK

You have the right attitude.


15 posted on 09/17/2022 7:23:04 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: ifinnegan

exactly


16 posted on 09/17/2022 7:24:35 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Rummyfan

“The current Republican is always worse than the previous Republican, after all.”

LOL Some truth to that as far as how the MSM views it.


17 posted on 09/17/2022 7:28:17 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: TigersEye

DeSantis is moving the cards around the table the illegals need southbound trips not cross the USA ones in the end.

He can made speeches endorse candidates Nixon did that in 1966 before 1968 when Nixon ran for POTUS a second time.

In the end I think the Governor should govern Florida mainly and cheer President Trump on, make speeches for candidates.

Not time for him to run for President not time.


18 posted on 09/17/2022 7:31:18 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Rummyfan

so what. he is an individual. No doubt has alot of his own ideas about things. Novel.


19 posted on 09/17/2022 7:33:16 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t ever trust anyone named Jamelle.


20 posted on 09/17/2022 7:36:25 PM PDT by hercuroc
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