I am 100% behind President Trump. Unlike many Trump supporters, however, I don’t despise DeSantis; I just wish he’d stay home and govern Florida, help Trump get elected in 2024, and take his eight years beginning 2028.
But I gotta admit, my patience with Ron is wearing thin. His crass opportunism is really starting to annoy me. It doesn’t speak highly of his character.
I’m also beginning to wonder: where exactly does he think he’s going to get the millions of $$$$$ he’s gonna need to get through a bruising primary and even more bruising general in the unlikely event he gets that far? Oh, he’ll have donors aplenty... and every damned one of ‘em will want stuff. What stuff, Ron? How will you appease them?
I don’t despise DeSantis..
I do question greatly his judgement at this point.
HE’s got the Uniparty/Establishment/NeverTrumpers whispering in his ear, and it’s clear the machine thinks he is their great white hope to stop Trump.
Sadly I think he’s fool-hearty to listen to them. I don’t begrudge DeSantis running, let anyone wants to do so, but I just don’t think he’s showing sound judgement. IF his intent for running this round is to build up his donor network for 2028, then it makes sense, but if he thinks he can honestly take on Trump and win, I question highly his judgement.
With Trump on the ballot there is no one who is going to take him out, and if Desantis thinks going head to head and attacking Trump is going to help his cause, I doubt it highly. His surrogates sure, but him personally and directly doing it? Like it or not, the odds of him being damaged long term for such acts is far greater than any odds he’s going to win the Primary... he need to look at what happened to Cruz and Rubio, they may never recover from the damage they caused themselves in 2016 runs.
If Trump were not on the ballot, the dynamic would be different, but he is, and he and MAGA supporters are not going anywhere. They know 2020 was stolen and they are going to crawl over glass if need be to vote for him in 2024. No one, and I do mean NO ONE, is going to be able to outperform Trump in the Republican Primary, and it isn’t even going to be close. There is NO coalition anyone could put together that will remotely have the size or dedication of the Trump supporters.
Folks who tell you there is, are the same bunch of fools who were telling anyone who would listen that OZ was a winner.
That’s the political reality, short of a massive black swan event, Trump is the nominee.
I have stated it elsewhere in this thread, the more I see of DeSantis, the more the “he’s not being genuine” alarms in my gut go off... and that has nothing to do with him attacking or not attacking Trump. I don’t do not get authentic vibe out of him, and the more I see him the more that feeling grows.
This primary season is going to be UGLY... 2020 the GOP Establishment largely worked behind the scenes to prevent Trump from getting re-elected, 2024 the entire machine will be openly fighting dirty at every level to stop him with absolutely no shame.
Don’t expect any positive coverage of anything Trump does or says by anyone.
Time will tell, but I just don’t see any mathematical way DJT is not the nominee. I hope Desantis got something big in exchange for him attempting to play the spoiler, because I suspect highly he’ll be damaged goods for higher office after this is all said and done.