Until we have free and fair elections again, a party that represents its base and government by the people and for the people again, things can and should get unbearable bad to the point, if necessary, of state secession or civil war.
The 80% of the Republican party that is MAGA isn't going back to Bush/Republican establishment rule.
His speeches, not DeSantis’s positions, might be worse than Romney’s.
DeSantis is solid on a lot of issues, but he’s turned out to be a divisive ambitious punk at this point in time.