Posted on 07/09/2023 7:11:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Ron DeSantis campaign continues to collapse under the inertia of its central flaw, a terrible candidate.
Hundreds-of-millions have been amassed to structure the pretending, create the brand image and present the narrative of something completely false.
The central flaw was always, eventually, going to surface.
Tens of millions have been spent on the launch and careful construct. However, when the core of the effort is built upon a false premise, there is nothing that can be done to change the outcome. Truth has a way of being self-evident; this represents the ultimate problem for the DeSantis team.
Every single week since the launch of the DeSantis campaign he has lost ground. The more Ron DeSantis is pushed into the voting audience, the less supported he becomes. In a desperate effort to stop hemorrhaging that support, the branding and image consultants decided to replace the candidate with a stand-in, his wife, Jill “Casey” DeSantis.
Think about this in context. The best hope of a multi-million-dollar ‘Never Back Down operation’ is to remove the principal from the equation and use an alternate. That’s the mindset of the DeSantis brain-trust. That’s their solution to the central flaw; remove the candidate – show him less. None of their action deals with the central flaw, because the core of the problem is the center of the operation.
The only hope for the entirety of the assembly behind those hundreds-of-millions, behind all those group chats, email lists and meeting rooms of professional political consultants, is if some external force removes President Donald Trump. Ultimately, that’s all they have. Without an external intervention, the downward spiral continues.
When you realize this central truth, you can then go back to what I was saying in the summer of 2022 and get an idea of what I meant.
In the summer of 2022 when few people would accept my prediction that Ron DeSantis was running for the GOP nomination in 2024, even fewer people truly understood what I meant when I said eventually all the Ron DeSantis supporters would start promoting eating bugs. “Hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Few people understood what I was stating. But it was actually acceptance of a logical sequence.
Ron DeSantis cannot win the GOP nomination without an external intervention to change the dynamic. If you start your review of sequence from that acceptance point, then you realize those who support Ron DeSantis will need to support the external intervention. In this instance, a corrupt and weaponized leftist U.S. Dept of Justice.
The DeSantis team, just like the Ted Cruz team that preceded him, are more anti-Trump and anti-nationalism than they are anti-corruption in government.
If it takes a corrupt and weaponized United States government to achieve their objective of a DeSantis nomination, then the corrupt and weaponized government is something they must accept. Hence, the baseline for my snarky prediction, “hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Again, this is not a grand exercise in political insight, it is simply following the sequence of necessary events to its most logical conclusion.
Ron DeSantis supporters will be Joe Biden supporters in order to eliminate the problem of Donald Trump. However, the number of American Republican voters who are willing to accept that conflicting outlook is far fewer than the number of ideologues within the GOPe willing to accept it.
What I have just described in that dynamic of diminished support, is exactly why Team DeSantis continues to shed supporters amid the ranks of voters.
Team DeSantis, the billionaires, the RGA, RNC and the entire coalition of ideological influencers, may be willing to eat the bugs – but the overwhelming majority of the voters will not; nor will they accept a transparently weaponized Dept of Justice as an external force against the will of We The People.
If you understand this dynamic, I mean really understand this dynamic, it becomes fun to combat the influence group being paid by the hundreds of millions in Sea Island funding.
In order to achieve their objective, the DeSantis supporters are forced to align with the corrupt system they pretend to despise. They are forced to deny that elections are manipulated; they are forced to deny the targeting of Trump is an inflection point that destroys our nation; they are forced to deny their association with the same corrupt and manipulated systems they depend on to achieve their objective. Pushing those supporters into the painful sunlight of their hypocrisy is not difficult.
The reason I shared the Casey DeSantis video yesterday is an element of this dynamic. Like her husband, she’s unbearable. Like her husband, she is fake. Like her husband, she is artificial, annoying and becomes more unlikable the more you are exposed to her. The scale and visible scope of the inauthentic political pandering underway by both Casey and her “The Governor,” Ron, is hilarious.
You can literally see the Republican brand image consultants at work.
Hey, MAGA, via Palin, originated and likes the Mama Grizzlies.
Hey, MAGA likes and relates to Duck Dynasty.
Hey, MAGA likes and relates to Melania, and her ‘come and take them’ stiletto heel attitude.
Hey, I’ve got an idea….
…Let’s put Mama Grizzlies, Duck Dynasty and Melania’s stilettos into the brand:
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You cannot make up this level of inauthentic effort.
At a certain point, you just laugh at it.
Your post is reasonable. What I do not understand is the need to unmercilessly rip DeSantis. Don’t get it.
Look, I think most people support Trump primarily because Trump now personifies the desire to tear this corrupt government asunder. Trump is a flawed person. I’m okay with that to a point, but DeSantis has shown, to me at least, that he is a capable warrior with a solid track record.
This.
—> DeSantis has shown, to me at least, that he is a capable warrior with a solid track record.
As long as he stays in FL with a majority legislature to pass his ideas…
But DC is vastly different, where +80% of republicans are corrupt
… and government employees are corrupt
What the Hell are you even babbling about?
The "movement" is now a permanent fixture in American politics. There's always going to be an electorate that wants America to be put first.
DeSantis is so owned and controlled by the very people Trump ran against in 2016, how do you not see this? I'm writing in Trump if DeSantis is the nominee. I am simply not voting for any other Republican.
I can agree with your comment. Bless you.
Stupid move on his part.
1. Caught the PrezVrus on his own,
2. He allowed himself to be manipulated to catch it.
If 1. then he’s just doing what overly ambitious egomaniacal professional politicians do. They have some success and then think they’re ready for the whole enchilada. He needs to finish the job in Florida before he looks for another!
If 2. then he’s too naive to go any further!
He’s likely cooked his political career goose!
I never criticized DeSantis personally or his family. OK, maybe I called him Meatball a couple of times, but I would never rip on his beautiful family.
“The real reason is that PT going all in on the Culture war, taking the gloves off, and becoming Trump 2.0, completly cuts off DeSantis’s best argument.”
I agree - Trump would rather not go there, but DeSantis, when he was a credible threat, forced him to do just that.
I think he had the idea on his own. So far, none of his handlers have handed him the note with “You lose” scrawled on it.
The article is true. Without that Uniparty/Soros kangaroo court lottery ticket in his back pocket, RdS would have no more chance than you.
No. This is an opinion piece with conclusions and context to back them up.
IMO DeSantis is a fabricated candidate who is curated for effect rather than being in any way authentic.
It’s my opinion. It’s not meant to hurt anyone’s feelings. It’s meant to get people to look under the hood & make up their own minds. Every time DeSantis speaks the cracks in his facade, the over promising, the broad brush approach to fixing whatever his focus groups say voters are concerned about, become more glaring. It is especially glaring when you have the information on his donor support and his globalist affiliations.
What is even worse is the lies he tells about Trump’s accomplishments and how he pretends, as a man with no business experience, no experience outside being a JAG and in government, that he is going to take on DC and accomplish anything at all let alone match Trump’s accomplishments, which are unparalleled in my lifetime. What did he accomplish in Congress other being one of nine founding members of the Freedom Caucus & support Trump?
I don’t know all about Ron-duh, but he has a track record of voting against the USA or at least the Citizens of his states best interests. He is not proven except as a govt employee. He is currently backed and taking support from many who are globalist minded, not US Citizen minded.
There is no way I would want him in 2028 or ever. Glad he is being spotlighted now for the anti American he is.
He is governor of a state. He is in position right now to do great things yet he isn’t doing them. Instead he is grabbing money by listening to people who encouraged him to divide or try to siphon off Trump support. Desantis has the authority to deport illegals yet he wastes tax payer money shipping them to other states there by dumping his problem on others, there b y allowing those illegals to harm or kill people on other states or at least start sucking money or jobs out of people of other states, there by also allowing the elections in those states to more easily be swayed by mail in ballots to illegals on voter rolls by motor voter methods etc.
Ron could have stood firm in our constitution and if our Fed gov t was corrupt about illegals being in our country Ron could have showed true courage and done the right thing and deported or otherwise contained them. WHY doesn’t he? because he is bought owned and serving those who want illegals running rampant intros country.
Ron made supposed good faith gesture of shipping them to the Vineyard and CA or wherever but again it was waste of tax payer dollars and just passing the buck, not solving the root of problem, more still piling into FL.
Ron is a fraud, he is only serving himself and those who line his pockets.
That is why I “unmercilessly rip DeSantis” as you say.
The FBI and CIA can’t be eliminated, but they can be purged, as can be all of the departments that are necessary. Trump hasn’t said he’d eliminate/change any of these 3 either.
Yeah, and probably funded by Rinos in support of BeijingBiden.
Hitting any non-commie trash competitor is support for the PedoPres. It is part of a campaign to smear all GOP as terrorists.
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