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The GOP Establishment Rises With DeSantis
The Epoch Times ^ | November 14, 2022 | Stu Cvrk

Posted on 12/09/2022 10:15:26 AM PST by SoConPubbie

The midterm elections have elucidated much. One of the revelations is the real definition of one of the Democrats’ main campaign themes this election cycle; for example, voters must vote Democrat to “save our democracy.” What has been revealed is that the real intention was to save our kleptocracy and that the junior partners of the Uniparty—the GOP establishment—were complicit.

Let us explore the premise.

Past Wave Elections

The first midterm elections of Democrat presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama provide a benchmark for what should logically have transpired in 2022.

In 1994, Republicans took control of the U.S. Congress for the first time since 1952, picking up 8 Senate and 54 House seats in a direct repudiation of Clinton’s policies. Clinton reneged on his “new Democrat” pledge by signing a tax increase and assault weapons ban into law while letting his wife push toward nationalizing America’s medical system via the pejoratively dubbed “Hillarycare.” As a result, Republicans under the leadership of Newt Gingrich were able to nationalize the election via the “Contract with America.” The result was a wave election for the Republicans.

By 2010, the populist Tea Party movement had emerged to deal Obama and the Democrats another major political defeat in a wave election. The Tea Party arose in direct opposition to Obama/Democrat massive deficit spending (which failed to produce the economic recovery promised by Keynesian economists) and the passage of Obamacare via subterfuge (see here about the railroading of Alaska’s Republican Sen. Ted Stevens). Thanks in large part to the Tea Party movement, Republicans gained 63 House seats, which was the largest wave election since 1948. Seven Republican seats were gained in the Senate, but not enough to win control.

In the wake of the 2010 election, deep fissures in the Republican Party were exposed after Mitch McConnell and his allies successfully marginalized and undermined the Tea Party populists in favor of Wall Street and U.S. Chamber of Commerce donors to the GOP establishment. Astute political observers discerned the split between “Main Street and Wall Street Republicans,” but it took the Trump presidency to expose the concept of a Uniparty kleptocracy.

And that split has been further exposed in the wake of the 2022 midterm elections.

The 2022 Results Defy Logic

Joe Biden’s nearly complete reversal of Donald Trump’s policies resulted in major damage to the national and economic security of the United States: massive deficit spending that dwarfed what Clinton and Obama were able to sign into law (which led to the highest inflation in the United States in 40 years), a flood of illegal aliens and attendant increases in crime rates, Democrat-directed economic lockdowns that destroyed lives and businesses, Democrat support for LGBTQI+ grooming in the public education system, the surge of racial divisiveness, the Democrats’ “defund the police” narrative that led to soaring crime rates (especially in Democrat cities), and the shutdown of the U.S. oil and gas industry in pursuit of the same green policies that are destroying economies in Europe and elsewhere.

These issues should have sunk the Democrat Party in 2022, but instead have resulted (as it looks to date) in the Republicans winning a narrow majority in the House, with control of the Senate to be determined by a runoff in Georgia between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

The election results defy logic, given that Biden/Democrat policies have driven the economy into the ditch over the past 20 months. Almost everyone except the very rich feels the effects: gasoline prices are double (or more, depending on the state) what they were when Biden was inaugurated, while food prices have gone through the roof. Never mind the price of other commodities that are driving the core inflation rate, the fentanyl-induced deaths of family members and friends, and the grooming of children in Democrat-controlled public school districts.

Furthermore, specific outcomes were more than a little puzzling. For example:

Stroke survivor John Fetterman—who was destroyed in the only debate held with Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz and who was behind in the polls going into election day—magically won the U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Despite the polling trends in favor of Republican Doug Mastriano going into Election Day, Democrat Josh Shapiro won a surprisingly large victory in the Pennsylvania governor’s race.

Two left-wing Democrat “lockdown governors” won reelection by significant margins in New York and Michigan.

A tight race for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire (according to virtually all of the polls) turned into a rout for the Democrat incumbent.

Maricopa County (Arizona) election system issues, first identified in 2020, reappeared with a vengeance in 2022, resulting in uncertain outcomes that defied polling data. Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was up by 11 points in some polls prior to the election, yet the race still hasn’t been called as of this date.

The Canary in the Coal Mine

The results in one state were consistent with the polling and predictions before Election Day and provided the key to explaining the illogic outcomes in many other states. Florida was a clean sweep for Republican candidates almost across the board, from the overwhelming reelection victory for incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis to the surprisingly easy reelection victory of Sen. Marco Rubio, and to the election of 20 Republicans for the House (up from 16 Republican House seats in the current Congress).

This Florida red wave was also what independent pollsters and pundits predicted for other states. Why did the wave happen in Florida but not elsewhere (except in Republican strongholds like South Dakota and Wyoming)?

What was absent from the Democrat playbook in Florida were mail-in ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and same-day registration that Democrats accelerated during the COVID-19 scare in 2020. The dirty little secret is that the results in Florida would almost certainly be delivered in other states, too, if those states had gotten rid of those practices that destroy election integrity. The contrast between Florida and Democrat-run states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, and Minnesota is stark regarding how elections were run.

As blogger Mark Bradman (known as Conservative Treehouse) has explained, election outcomes in 2022 can be explained by the difference between ballots and votes. Democrat-run states concentrate their election efforts on amassing the greatest number of ballots from any sources (including illegal). In contrast, Republican-run states focus on obtaining the largest number of valid votes from legal voters.

The Democrats’ ballot-collecting process has been proven to be a winner everywhere they’ve tried it, which explains many of the head-scratching results this year that defied the polls, including the several listed above.

Concluding Thoughts

Did the Democrat machine roll over in Florida, or was something more at foot? The resulting political narrative beginning on Nov. 9 reflects the common interests of both the Democrat Party and the GOP establishment. That narrative is that DeSantis is in ascendance, while the failures of Republican candidates in other states “prove” that Trump’s political influence has peaked.

Both the GOP establishment and Democrat Party have been trying to get rid of Trump for years. And the spinning by Republicans, self-described conservative pundits, Democrats, and many voices in the legacy media are eerily consistent in the wake of the midterm elections. The move to push Trump aside in favor of DeSantis in the run-up to 2024 is already well underway.

One of DeSantis’s key backers (and of others in the GOP establishment) is Ken Griffin, CEO of the investment firm Citadel. As Politico reported two days before the election, Griffin poured $60 million into the 2022 election cycle to support establishment Republican candidates. Regarding Trump, Griffin stated, “For a litany of reasons, I think it’s time to move on to the next generation.” And that includes supporting candidates that will “blunt the vein of populism that has complicated the party’s relationship with the corporate world.”

DeSantis has already lined up support from the Bush wing of the Republican Party (including Jeb Bush). And many others, such as former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, are helping the cause, as noted here.

Pushing Trump aside solves problems for the GOP establishment and donors like Griffin. They are only too happy to return to making deals with Democrats and fleecing Main Street Americans through the theft of taxpayer dollars. That means business as usual status quo ante Trump, with corporate tax breaks and subsidies, the pouring of taxpayer dollars down the Ukraine rathole (and back into Uniparty pockets), future bank and corporate bailouts for those that are “too big to fail,” endless gargantuan spending bills, and continuing resolutions filled with pork.

It is crystal clear that the GOP establishment and the Democrat Party are aligned in “saving our kleptocracy.” Will the populists who comprise the America First movement be marginalized by this unholy alliance? Don’t count Trump out just yet.


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KEYWORDS: 2022; 2022midterms; 2024; desantis; desantisbashing; election2022; fl; florida; gopclubforum; newsforumabuse; rondemitchschoice; stucvrk; votefraud; whydorinosloveron
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1 posted on 12/09/2022 10:15:26 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ...
This. Until this is fixed, elections will continue to be won by the America-hating left (emphasis mine):

"What was absent from the Democrat playbook in Florida were mail-in ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and same-day registration that Democrats accelerated during the COVID-19 scare in 2020. The dirty little secret is that the results in Florida would almost certainly be delivered in other states, too, if those states had gotten rid of those practices that destroy election integrity. The contrast between Florida and Democrat-run states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, and Minnesota is stark regarding how elections were run."

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2 posted on 12/09/2022 10:25:48 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: SoConPubbie

Interesting, so it’s not only The Conservative Treehouse is beginning to see the obvious.

And by obvious, I’m not even talking about DeSantis. I’m talking about all the folks he seems to have in his corner and throwing money at him.

I’m betting that if Pres Trump bowed out today and then held a press conference with DeSantis, where they told the world that the DeSantis campaign would MAGA on steroids, the money would dry up so fast it’d make your head spin.


3 posted on 12/09/2022 10:26:08 AM PST by qaz123
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To: SoConPubbie

Donald Trump went to war against the GOP. He lost.

If there is any hope at all for conservatism in America, Ron DeSantis must be the one to bring about change in the Republican party. I know, many here at FR say that DeSantis is just another Harvard educated GOP stooge who will fit right in with the swamp rats in DC.

I don’t believe that but if true, what are our other choices?


4 posted on 12/09/2022 10:30:17 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why continue voting r or d? Just take care of your family, friends and self. This idea that things will get fixed by voting gopher is a bunk. They simply don’t care about you or America. America has been sliding for decades, the chance to fix it has long since past. The gop was part of that destruction, they are not part of the solution.


5 posted on 12/09/2022 10:41:26 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right now the jury is out on DeSantis. The fact the GOPE/RNC is all ga-ga over him sets off a red alert for me immediately. The GOPE/RNC people hate their base, they are liars and leftist so why would they support a conservative?

Will see how this plays out. Aside from Trump he’s the only one out there I might consider wasting my time to vote for in 24. I hate to say that about wasting time and voting but the jig is up, it doesn’t mean a thing anymore. You can’t outvote the dead and the non-existent.


6 posted on 12/09/2022 10:44:16 AM PST by sarge83
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To: SoConPubbie

I am quite warm to deSantis. He looks like he may have a lot to offer. But unless Trump makes any more serious mistakes with his dinner invitations, deSantis will be wise to let trump declare a different residency state and then run as his veep


7 posted on 12/09/2022 10:47:54 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SoConPubbie

“””What was absent from the Democrat playbook in Florida were mail-in ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and same-day registration that Democrats accelerated during the COVID-19 scare in 2020.”””


Epoch needs to research the facts before pontificating.

Florida has mail-in ballots and I recall mail-in ballots accounted for about 1/3rd of the votes cast on Nov 8.

Now, unlike other states Florida does not send a ballot to everyone on the voter registration rolls.


8 posted on 12/09/2022 10:49:53 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Responsibility2nd

He is, and there probably aren’t any. But yes, he’s Bush without the speech impediment. She me where he will depart from the neocon agenda. He’s all in for Ukraine, Syria, you name it.


9 posted on 12/09/2022 10:52:28 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I don’t know why anyone would think DeSantis is the answer.

Relatively speaking, the guy is flat broke … which means he will do whatever he’s told if he wants to have a career in public office.

10 posted on 12/09/2022 10:53:45 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

I can see the spineless GOP Governors in 30 states being ‘all-in’ for a DeSantis Presidential run in 2024.

DeSantis is embarrassing these spineless GOP Governors in 30 states by being a common-sense and conservative Governor.


11 posted on 12/09/2022 10:54:38 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: SoConPubbie

And the people said Amen.


12 posted on 12/09/2022 10:56:29 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Alberta's Child

which means he will do whatever he’s told if he wants to have a career in public office.

So true!!! He is a beholden puppet allowing his strings to be pulled by the Uniparty GOPe power brokers.

DeSantis actually owes his current office to PDJT but has already and continues to betray President Trump by endorsing that NeverTrumper Colorado senate candidate and now planning to meet with donors ahead of his second inauguration in FL.

President Trump is thee leader of we the people and only cares about doing what’s right for his country.

DeSanctimonious is basically another career politician who’ll kowtow to whomever he has to in order to advance himself.


13 posted on 12/09/2022 11:03:19 AM PST by edie1960 (7)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t know why anyone would think DeSantis is the answer.

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And I don’t know why anyone would think that a man who has Hitler loving holocaust denier guests for dinner would be the answer.

Don’t get me wrong. Trump is my first choice. But he and his mouth will eventually relegate his chances to slim and none.


14 posted on 12/09/2022 11:12:11 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
I can see the spineless GOP Governors in 30 states being ‘all-in’ for a DeSantis Presidential run in 2024.

Especially Kemp here in GA. IMO, Kemp et al, have a lot to be fearful of with a DJT admin sitting in the WH.

15 posted on 12/09/2022 11:12:53 AM PST by frog in a pot (We are all "frogs in a pot", and it is time to jump out.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Trump is running in '24. Desantis will get crushed if he tries to go against Trump.

I predict that you will be voting for Trump in Nov. ‘24.

Get used to the idea.

Where else are you going to go?


16 posted on 12/09/2022 11:16:07 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

At least we’re not nominating perverts who shower with their nine year old daughters and raise sons who sell out to China and are drug addicted whore-mongers... “Oh, here’s a little 6 year old girl - can I run over and sniff her?”


17 posted on 12/09/2022 11:16:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Has Biden had dinner with an "anti-evangelical"? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
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To: edie1960
>>>>DeSanctimonious is basically another career politician who’ll kowtow to whomever he has to in order to advance himself.

You got that right.

18 posted on 12/09/2022 11:16:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Alberta's Child
"Relatively speaking, the guy is flat broke … which means he will do whatever he’s told if he wants to have a career in public office."

So, you only want rich people to run for office? Is that what you're saying here?

19 posted on 12/09/2022 11:18:20 AM PST by thefactor
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To: SoConPubbie
Trump has come to a rare place in American political history... à la Andy Jackson and TR ...DeSantis may be getting there if he can avoid the Uniparty vortex he is unwisely sailing around... Whatever, no conservative will win the presidency unless he/she leads the charge to stop fraud, repair broken party election strategy/tactics and inspire a hostile demographic to think right.

Trump has earned a chance to go down in history as a great conservative populist. But time is short, and he can't waste time on complaints and petty imbroglios. He needs a proven brain trust around him to provide recommendations to fight fraud with surgical precision, to strengthen election strategy and to inspire/challenge youthful voters to think about their futures. If DeSantis or any other candidate could manage this, I would back them.

20 posted on 12/09/2022 11:20:19 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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