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DeSantis is a 'very dangerous individual' because he has 'already absorbed all the lessons of Trump' but doesn't have any of the baggage, an expert on fascism argues
Business Insider ^ | June 15 2022 | Azmi Haroun,Charles R. Davis

Posted on 06/15/2022 7:50:24 PM PDT by rintintin

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is best placed to take Trump's place as a 2024 GOP presidential nominee.

An expert on authoritarianism told Insider that's because he's learned all of Trump's lessons.

The expert added that DeSantis 'doesn't have the baggage of Trump,' and could rally voters.

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


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: agitprop; azmiharoun; bidenvoters; charlesrdavis; desantis; desantis2024; desantisshill; desantistout; fakeexpert; frdesantisshill; leftwingfascist; rintintout; ruthbenghiat; shillingfordesantis; toutingdesantis
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To: rintintin

Basically, the left calls anyone who isn’t a Marxist a “fascist.”


21 posted on 06/15/2022 8:01:33 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: rintintin

Seems ever day I read an article about DeSantis and how he is better than Trump.

DeSantis has said repeatedly he is not going to run for president. He has said this countless times but people still are saying this.

I think these people are just out to weaken Trump’s chances and I suspect they are really dems.

Look at the source of this article; MSN. Can’t get any farther dem country. Well unless you go to CNN.

Support the guy who IS going to run.


22 posted on 06/15/2022 8:02:28 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: rintintin

So ... DeSantis is literally Hitler?

Who knew?


23 posted on 06/15/2022 8:03:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't want to be part of a union of 50 states. We tried that. It doesn't work.)
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To: Ken522

You have learned over the last few years telepathically with Covid, all these experts at universities are by far the dumbest people on the face of the earth.


24 posted on 06/15/2022 8:03:19 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: rintintin

Every pro DeSantis piece is really an anti-trump piece, these people really think we are stupid.


25 posted on 06/15/2022 8:03:19 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: rintintin

They want to divide the vote!
Stay united against this onslaught! Trump2024!

DeSantis2028!


26 posted on 06/15/2022 8:05:01 PM PDT by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: rintintin

IOW, they can’t find anything to use against him and he can get elected and implement Trumpist MAGA-style policies. He’s dangerous to Democrats and progressives.

And hsi communications director is fierce.


27 posted on 06/15/2022 8:05:02 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: traderrob6

He becomes an expert on fascism by practicing it himself.


28 posted on 06/15/2022 8:05:11 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

New York University.


29 posted on 06/15/2022 8:06:49 PM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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To: rintintin

DeSantis doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would share a bed with Frank Luntz and he also seems to understand the need to stay on offense.

If he is the nominee and doesn’t have any skeletons, the Dems will be kicking themselves for having helped drive Trump away.


30 posted on 06/15/2022 8:08:23 PM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: rintintin

dangerous to “our democracy”


31 posted on 06/15/2022 8:09:47 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Beowulf9

“DeSantis has said repeatedly he is not going to run for president”

No he hasn’t. He simply puts feuded to answer the question. That’s what he did on Fox and Friends the other morning. He said he’s focused on 2022 and doesn’t want to get sidetracked.

I imagine Desantis has real problems with Trump after Trump called him a “coward” for not publicly revealing his booster status. Desantis said that’s private for every individual. He doesnt want to promote that controversial shot, but let people decide with their own doctors. Trump sounded like Biden when he was tagging on Desantis for not being a booster salesman


32 posted on 06/15/2022 8:10:42 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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To: TBP
Really, TBP?

You would think that you'd remember the FR primary wars of 2015-2016

33 posted on 06/15/2022 8:11:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Leftists seem to be experts on everything. And the younger, less educated and more stupid seem to be the MOST ‘expert’.


34 posted on 06/15/2022 8:12:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: freespirit2012

“Every pro DeSantis piece is really an anti-trump piece”

A piece that calls Desantis a fascist is hardly “pro Desantis”


35 posted on 06/15/2022 8:13:00 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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To: rintintin

SEE also:

Trump might have to be prosecuted to save American democracy, an expert on authoritarianism argues
Business insider ^ | 06/15/2022 | Charles R Davis
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4071389/posts?page=62

Trump was ‘extremely disciplined in grifting’ and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-used-presidency-to-try-and-make-money-fascism-expert-2022-6


36 posted on 06/15/2022 8:14:12 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: BobL
If he is the nominee and doesn’t have any skeletons, the Dems will be kicking themselves for having helped drive Trump away.

Trump's Achilles' heel is his ego.

Time will tell regarding DeSantis.

37 posted on 06/15/2022 8:15:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: rintintin

DeSantis Dangerous????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


38 posted on 06/15/2022 8:15:53 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Beowulf9

“DeSantis has said repeatedly he is not going to run for president. He has said this countless times but people still are saying this.”

In fact, he hasn’t even said it once, at least not publicly. What he says is that the question is a distraction because he’s focused on getting re-elected as governor. That’s hardly saying he won’t run for president two years later.


39 posted on 06/15/2022 8:16:23 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Trump’s Achilles’ heel is his ego.

And his bad judgment in choosing aides and department heads


40 posted on 06/15/2022 8:17:39 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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