“some will argue that Trump was, and always has been, the perfect candidate from the time he ran for president in 2000.”
He’s far from perfect. But he is inevitable. Running against him this cycle was just plain stupid. DeSantis not only wasted tens of millions of dollars that would have been better spent on local races this year, he pissed away incalculable amounts of political capital with the Trump base.
If he’d just kept his mouth shut and run Florida until his term expires Trump would have snapped him up for a Cabinet position. He and Trump would have made a very formidable team.
Sadly, that won’t happen now.
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I remember advocates for Gerald Ford said the same thing against Reagan when Reagan challenged the sitting president in 1976.
Ford won the nomination but Reagan became the go-to guy for the Republicans four years later.
That may not happen again; but it may happen again.
I hope if DeSantis is defeated in the Republican primaries in 2028 it will be by some conservative that is even better than DeSantis.
Do you know who that would be?
I don't.