How did DeSantis “pick the wrong side”? What are you talking about.
DeSantis’ entire campaign strategy rested on the hope that the Democrats would be successful in convicting President Trump for ‘insurrection’ or some other bogus charge - and thus clear a path for DeSantis to win in 2024.
It’s the Democrats who - since 2016 - have waged an ongoing insurrection against a duly elected Republican administration. Two fake impeachments, a stolen presidential election, the Jan 6 false flag operation to frame innocent MAGA protesters, and an endless string of bogus indictments against a Republican President and anyone who tried to resist it or expose it.
Instead of resisting or exposing the Democrat plot against President Trump and MAGA, DeSantis and the other cowardly Republican candidates welcomed it, because they too wanted Trump out of the way for their own political advantages.
When has DeSantis ever expressed outrage over the stolen 2020 election? He refused to publicly acknowledge it was stolen, because that would undermine the Democrats’ false narrative (that Trump committed insurrection on Jan 6) and DeSantis was depending on that narrative - he was depending on the Democrat lawfare to eliminate Trump.