Trump or DeSantis: Who Is the Man for the Times?

Elon Musk recently declaring that we need to move on from President Donald Trump is the latest example of chatter I have noticed lately on the news and conservative blogs about why we need to do an about-face to Governor Ron DeSantis as our presidential nominee in 2024.

The question is whether this conversation is from the people or manufactured by Deep State operatives.

As of the writing of this piece, Trump has not officially declared whether he's even going to seek the nomination in 2024, but you wouldn't know that from all the hand-wringing. So, for now this is just a hypothetical comparison.

First, I am a big Governor DeSantis fan. He is showing what strong state leadership looks like and how it is possible to constitutionally resist a tyrannical federal government. DeSantis has been a profile in courage, toughness, sensibility, and even love as he stands for the citizens of Florida. He is the living embodiment of a patriotic executive.

Governor DeSantis has what it takes to be president and would likely be an effective leader of the free world...but not in 2024. DeSantis needs to stay in Florida for now, build on the gains he has made for that state, and instill the habit in the minds of Floridians of what normal governance looks like. This, so they don't screw up and elect another politician in the vein of Charlie Christ or Andrew Gillum (Florida really dodged a bullet with that clown).

negative...

individual states need to follow desantis’s lead...

one man isn’t going to whip the individual states into shape...

If Trump is not on the ballot I will not vote.

I have nothing but contempt for this attitude. There isn’t a single DeSantis supporter on this forum who hasn’t pledged to vote for Trump if he earns the nomination. Yet you and many others have pledged to stay home and help toss the country to the Democrats if he isn’t. Disgraceful.

Trump is the ONLY one who can fix this nation. If not Trump we are finished as a nation anyway. Washington swamp will eat the inexperienced DeSantis Alive!

The DC Swamp chewed Trump up and spit him out. He spent his last year in office handing the country over to Fauci and Birx, allowing them to destroy his juggernaut economy, while Trump himself was embarrassingly pandering his $500 billion “Platinum Plan” in reparations to blacks, who thanked him with a whopping 7% of their votes. And then he mailed us all Covid checks, sparking the inflation spiral that continues to this day.

As the saying goes, “If you strike at the king, you’d best not miss!” Trump struck at the Swamp, missed, was driven from office, and today the Swamp is more powerful than ever.

If anything, Ron DeSantis has learned what not to do.

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