I wouldn’t count on that. The last establishment GOP candidate to campaign against useless wars and nation-building was George W. Bush. How’d that work out?
DeSantis? Establishment?
He's hated by the MSM, loathed by leftists everywhere, given no air time by RINOs, and even Billy Kristol's website dislikes him.
Establishment is Pence, Nikki Haley, Linda, Willard, Paul Ryan, and related losers.
DeSantis appeals to conservatives who want to continue MAGA without the WWE theatrics. Some people still like Trump's demolition derby style, and just like a Zappa fan must deal with Frank's anti-religious stances, Trump fans gotta deal with the 14-year old-like drama accompanying MAGA.
It's more likely that the "Establishment" theory is a leftist psyops, designed to torpedo a legitimate threat to statism.