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Why Trump Should Fear DeSantis (or Someone Like Him)
National Review ^ | 1/20/22 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 01/20/2022 8:19:53 PM PST by conservative98

I have no idea how 2024 will ultimately play out for Republicans, but I believe if anyone is going to eclipse or defeat Trump, it will be someone like DeSantis who has learned from Trump and could critique him from the right.

I wrote about this for Politico today.

Ron DeSantis Knows the Formula to Defeat Donald Trump

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: cucktail; desantis; nationalreview; nevertrumper; richlowry; trump
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To: Jamestown1630

No mention of 25th Amendment for Dementia Brandon, but I am certain it was thrown out there and threatened by officials to Trump concerning any and all decisions he wanted to make.


21 posted on 01/20/2022 8:41:34 PM PST by taterjay
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To: conservative98

I don’t agree and I sure wish Desantis had not said he was going to run for President... anytime.... whenever...

But Trump is the one and only who fights for us and who has the guts to do what has to be done. However, he is not liked by some who vote for him.... give them a softer and gentler same and they would switch to another.

my opinion only.

Hey, I like Desantis but I would not vote for him instead of Trump. Trump is my first choice because I know who he is and believe he will do all he can for us.


22 posted on 01/20/2022 8:41:44 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: conservative98

It changes my opinion of desantis when he did this... he could run with Trump or wait and be President after Trump.. he is young and has time for that.

To cut into Trump’s voters... who is desantis to do this???!!


23 posted on 01/20/2022 8:44:13 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: conservative98
I totally expect Lowry to turn on DeSantis as well. There's nothing conservative left on NR worth conserving. Nothing to stand athwart and yell stop over. They're just vying for cocktail party invites and donor bucks since subscriptions tailed off five years ago.

For all his faults, and he had them in spades, Trump did some really amazing things during his term in office, especially given the near absence of support from other republicans. If he were elected again, I don't doubt he'd be twice the wrecking ball he was the first time, and at least three times as entertaining while doing it.

DeSantis is everything Trump supporters wanted out of Trump but without a lot of the baggage that Trump brings. He should be a first choice, but if he's the second choice, he's one hell of a runner-up and he can beat Trump while respecting Trump and his voters. It doesn't have to be an all out war (Trump can also do the same, though his track record is not really good at respecting his opponents. He has to get his digs in even if he doesn't really mean them to be harsh. Trump's MO is beating his competitors and then allowing them to be nice to him. That wears on you after a while.).

Rush once said that while nobody really graduates from the EIB institute, if there ever was a graduate of the EIB Institute, it was DeSantis.

If it's a battle between the two, steel will sharpen steel and a better candidate will come out of it, either a better Trump, or a more polished DeSantis. What do the dems have that matches that momemntum right now? A tanned rested and ready Hillary? A palsied and mushmouthed Biden? Kamala? All things considered, I like the right's hand much better than the left's hand.

24 posted on 01/20/2022 8:46:51 PM PST by jz638
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To: jz638
I find it astonishing that Freepers — of all people — wouldn’t recognize DeSantis for what he is.

An Ivy League lawyer turned career politician is a textbook definition of “The Swamp.”

25 posted on 01/20/2022 8:51:14 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: conservative98

They might if he’s a vague challenger. But once he is a nominee or president they will call him 100x worse than Trump. And for their purposes he probably will be. I have no idea how DeSantis will be, but he’d probably nominate conservatives for the Supreme Court.


26 posted on 01/20/2022 8:51:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: conservative98

The Never Trumpers at NR are really scared of Trump.


27 posted on 01/20/2022 8:51:47 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: conservative98

Rich never Trump Lowry for God’s sake! 😣


28 posted on 01/20/2022 9:03:10 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Beagle8U

I don’t think that little troll has the mental capacity to comprehend smashing her palms together.


29 posted on 01/20/2022 9:04:51 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Alberta's Child

I find it astonishing that Freepers — of all people — wouldn’t recognize DeSantis for what he is.
An Ivy League lawyer turned career politician is a textbook definition of “The Swamp.”

The choice in 2024 has never been easier, with or without DeSantis entering the Republican Primary.

I’ve work my whole life for money, specifically other people’s money.
Donald Trump is different, I’ll work for that guy for free.

I’m registering “deplorable types” and getting ready for 2022 & 2024 elections. My attitude towards anti Trump partisans is:

“Bring It On, You Little Bitches!”


30 posted on 01/20/2022 9:07:25 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrelLot of female billionaires out there.)
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To: conservative98

I was a huge Trump fan up until the vaccines. Vaccines are not like Manhattan skyscrapers. Development can’t be rushed “ahead of schedule and under budget.” Trump screwed up. He doesn’t get it yet, I don’t think. I also think he trusted rino after rino, and seriously underestimated the deep state. Otherwise he was great. Best prez by far in my lifetime. Still, I would vote for DeSantis over Trump. I think DeSantis does Trump better than Trump. I don’t need a showman this time around. Just a better version of Trump with solid conservative principles. And you don’t need that many people like me for Trump to not win in 2024. I’m not saying I would never vote for Trump. But I’d I do, it’s because he will have convinced me that he gets it on vaccines, rhinos, and deep state.


31 posted on 01/20/2022 9:07:25 PM PST by Meah (The terrain is everything. ~Louis Pasteur )
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To: conservative98

FU, Rich.

L


32 posted on 01/20/2022 9:08:48 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Meah
and seriously underestimated the deep state.

So did most of us. Trump pulled off the scab and showed what was underneath in a way that a Ted Cruz or a Scott Walker couldn't.
33 posted on 01/20/2022 9:16:11 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: Alberta's Child

FR has a clear number of trolls pushing various agendas, coming out in the open because they foolishly believe there’s a chance to “get Trump!” finally. But it will fail like all other attempts to topple him.


34 posted on 01/20/2022 9:26:19 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: conservative98
They will 100% be backing Desantis (if he enters.) Same with the Bush Family.

"They?"

35 posted on 01/20/2022 9:32:46 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

She don’t need palms for the clap she has for him.


36 posted on 01/20/2022 9:35:25 PM PST by Beagle8U ("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reid is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
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To: Meah

I understand very much. We are in accord.

I am puzzled by the Trump vaccine disposition.

We know that the vaccines are poison. How can we reconcile this position with our own understandings? It is impossible. This creates a huge stumbling block. Still, I will never vote for a Rat.


37 posted on 01/20/2022 9:49:57 PM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits)
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To: TakebackGOP

Lowry is the enemy.


38 posted on 01/20/2022 10:10:16 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: nickcarraway

That troubles me.


39 posted on 01/20/2022 10:17:59 PM PST by Maudeen (PSALM 91 - GOD'S ANTIDOTE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS & VACCINE)
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To: conservative98

The Democrats don’t have much to go on right now, all they have is creating a totally false narrative about hostility between Trump and DeSantis.

There will be useful idiots and secret operatives who push this and buy into it. But please don’t let your friends get suckered by this journalistic trickery.


40 posted on 01/20/2022 10:30:13 PM PST by Mount Athos
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