IMHO, RDS is/was a construct. A house of cards.
I don’t for one second he’s as good a Governor as he gets credit for. I don’t think he’s that smart. And he clearly isn’t at the same level as President Trump.
He was a relatively unknown in the House who got lucky the first time. And was the recipient of over 800,000 Republicans/Conservatives moving to Florida.
Folks talk about how he handled the hurricanes. The worker bees in Florida handle the hurricanes. They can do it blindfolded given that damn near all of them were born down there and have been dealing with storms for a lifetime.
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House of Cards it is! Check out the cringe-factor baseball cards he had made... military cards too!
Probably a product of Bush family grooming, DeSantis was a captain of the Yale baseball team -- same as G Herbert Walker Bush. Too bad during his captaincy, the Yale baseball team's record was the worst in the Ivy League.
Maybe at that time he was given the chance to get a Harvard law degree. Then when the Iraq War came, they saw that he got a JAG Corp legal job working with prisoner of war affairs for six months in Falluja. Then they fabricated a non-combat Bronze Star to brighten his future political resume.
That was the start.
Then being the savvy measure of men and women Trump is, Trump reluctantly supported DeSantis for the Governor's job, fully knowing DeSantis would eventually be Trump's opponent.
Trump weighed the odds and knew DeSantis could easily be crushed when DeSantis unmasked as a RINO and exposed his true agenda, seeing how the guy lacked a personality, was self-conscious of his height and had zero practical experience running a business, etc.
Here's a 46-second X ad spot featuring the baseball cards. He is indeed a House of Cards :-)