DeSantis clearly has control over the Florida bureaucracy. What makes you think he will have control over the Federal bureaucracy?
Remember when the military actively lied to Trump about troops being withdrawn from Afghanistan when they actually weren't? Or the various employees of the Federal bureaucracies who were on record saying they were actively subverting Trump's efforts to implement his agenda?
Why would the Federal bureaucracy do anything different with DeSantis? And how would he handle them better?
We need stronger right-wing state governments willing and able to tell the Feds to fuck off. I would rather he stay where he is as an example of what a right-wing state can accomplish.
You put my thoughts into letters pretty well. I think a lot of Trump not doing something well or well enough was him being cockblocked. Him not having experience in politics probably also added to them, which he has now.
I think the biggest indictment against Trump's second term is that he continues to endorse neo-cons and other subversives in a way that suggests he hasn't learned very much from his first term.
He needs people close to him who are personally loyal to him. Honestly he'd be better off randomly appointing people who attend his campaign rallies. Lot of those folks would take bullets for him.
This is one reason I'm pessimistic about the Federal government in the short term: it's going to require someone absolutely ruthless to reign the bureaucracy in, and a person with that mindset hasn't appeared yet.
I think part of his endorsements are simply people who will most likely win anyway, so that he can appear to be a kingmaker. Don't know enough about US politics to be sure, but this is both beneficial from a political perspective, and fits in with being a populist.
I would assume he is vindictive enough to not endorse someone he is personally angry with for some reason.
this. his own appointees actively lied to him, even tried to set him up, or actively fucked him over, because that's just how deep the swamp goes. the CIA/FBI actively infiltrated his campaign team and cabinet with operatives. no way of knowing who he could trust. what makes anyone think desantis would sniff out the frauds any better?
If Trump is the nominee we will lose guaranteed in 2024.
I don't care if DeSantis is unable to fix Washington. I want him as the nominee as harm reduction to prevent another term of Biden.
When the President is a Democrat they constantly encroach on state's rights. Doesn't matter how good of a governor DeSantis is when the President is fucking the whole country up.
That is the angle you are neglecting.
We cannot have Trump as the 2024 nominee. He is the candidate that half of the country has a visceral hate for.
DeSantis is much more palatable.
I want DeSantis because he can win against Biden not because I think he will magically fix everything.
The only hope I have left for this country is a handful of states going full anti-federalist and creating safe havens for people who want to live without a boot on their throat. DeSantis seems to be willing to do this for Florida. If we had another 20 of him in various states across the country, we might be able to balkanize this dead country just enough to create a semi-amicable national divorce situation.
The only other options are a night of long knives or full on civil war, and not many people want either of those.
DeSantis clearly has control over the Florida bureaucracy. What makes you think he will have control over the Federal bureaucracy?
Remember when the military actively lied to Trump about troops being withdrawn from Afghanistan when they actually weren't? Or the various employees of the Federal bureaucracies who were on record saying they were actively subverting Trump's efforts to implement his agenda?
Why would the Federal bureaucracy do anything different with DeSantis? And how would he handle them better?
We need stronger right-wing state governments willing and able to tell the Feds to fuck off. I would rather he stay where he is as an example of what a right-wing state can accomplish.
You put my thoughts into letters pretty well. I think a lot of Trump not doing something well or well enough was him being cockblocked. Him not having experience in politics probably also added to them, which he has now.
I think the biggest indictment against Trump's second term is that he continues to endorse neo-cons and other subversives in a way that suggests he hasn't learned very much from his first term.
He needs people close to him who are personally loyal to him. Honestly he'd be better off randomly appointing people who attend his campaign rallies. Lot of those folks would take bullets for him.
This is one reason I'm pessimistic about the Federal government in the short term: it's going to require someone absolutely ruthless to reign the bureaucracy in, and a person with that mindset hasn't appeared yet.
I think part of his endorsements are simply people who will most likely win anyway, so that he can appear to be a kingmaker. Don't know enough about US politics to be sure, but this is both beneficial from a political perspective, and fits in with being a populist.
I would assume he is vindictive enough to not endorse someone he is personally angry with for some reason.
this. his own appointees actively lied to him, even tried to set him up, or actively fucked him over, because that's just how deep the swamp goes. the CIA/FBI actively infiltrated his campaign team and cabinet with operatives. no way of knowing who he could trust. what makes anyone think desantis would sniff out the frauds any better?
If Trump is the nominee we will lose guaranteed in 2024.
I don't care if DeSantis is unable to fix Washington. I want him as the nominee as harm reduction to prevent another term of Biden.
When the President is a Democrat they constantly encroach on state's rights. Doesn't matter how good of a governor DeSantis is when the President is fucking the whole country up.
That is the angle you are neglecting.
We cannot have Trump as the 2024 nominee. He is the candidate that half of the country has a visceral hate for.
DeSantis is much more palatable.
I want DeSantis because he can win against Biden not because I think he will magically fix everything.
The only hope I have left for this country is a handful of states going full anti-federalist and creating safe havens for people who want to live without a boot on their throat. DeSantis seems to be willing to do this for Florida. If we had another 20 of him in various states across the country, we might be able to balkanize this dead country just enough to create a semi-amicable national divorce situation.
The only other options are a night of long knives or full on civil war, and not many people want either of those.