A president that will truly fix things in D.C. is not a president that will come up from within the usual political machine. Ron DeSantis will not be that president.
The next Republican president needs to be a fire breathing take no prisoners type unafraid to use any and all levers of power available to them. A president who knows going in he is going to have to take a scythe to the civil service, and be creative about doing it. He is also going to need a team of people just like him to fill political appointee slots.
Such a president will not come from the GOP establishment, because that establishment wants things the way they are. They make billions of dollars off of the present system.
The next republican president will have to be a total outsider, like Trump.
The sad truth is that no President can fix this country. The rot runs too deep.
Even if by some miracle someone who you described overcomes the cheating and wins, and they surround themselves with a good team, the deep state will be able to limit the scope of what he can fix. And they'll just assassinate him if he gets too close to enacting serious changes.
Is DeSantis GOP establishment? I think he was a Tea Party and publicly was pro-Trump since even before he descended the escalator.
They don't need to be a firebreather, but they need to be ruthless. This was the problem with Trump, he's basically good natured. You hear him on the secret tapes and it's not somebody who would pulling fingernails off with pliers. I bet if you heard DeSantis's inner monologue he'd be going off on how they can really fuck Disney and dick over liberals.
Is he GOPe? That is the ten million dollar question, isn't it?
I've been voting for President since 1992, and have been burned far too many times. I'd like to think DeSantis isn't, but 30 years of experience tells me otherwise.
I bet if you heard DeSantis's inner monologue he'd be going off on how they can really fuck Disney and dick over liberals.
Well, see my recent post about DeSantis calling for a special legislative session to repeal Disney's special self rule district. I think you're right, he is trying to fuck over Disney.
I don't have much faith in electoral politics at the national level either. I've been telling people who want to have such faith that they need a different attitude.
Conservatives keep looking for a hero. Instead, they need to have a more adversarial attitude. Instead of getting high on copium and hopium all the time, they need to be ready to bully "their own" politicians, to turn on them when let down and especially outright betrayed. Treat them like you will have to drag them, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing because that's the only chance you have that they will.
You need a Tom Cotton, in my opinion. Someone who sees brownshirts seizing territory and burning cities as a military problem that justifies a military solution.
A president that will truly fix things in D.C. is not a president that will come up from within the usual political machine. Ron DeSantis will not be that president.
The next Republican president needs to be a fire breathing take no prisoners type unafraid to use any and all levers of power available to them. A president who knows going in he is going to have to take a scythe to the civil service, and be creative about doing it. He is also going to need a team of people just like him to fill political appointee slots.
Such a president will not come from the GOP establishment, because that establishment wants things the way they are. They make billions of dollars off of the present system.
The next republican president will have to be a total outsider, like Trump.
The sad truth is that no President can fix this country. The rot runs too deep.
Even if by some miracle someone who you described overcomes the cheating and wins, and they surround themselves with a good team, the deep state will be able to limit the scope of what he can fix. And they'll just assassinate him if he gets too close to enacting serious changes.
I don't expect Desantis of being able to fix the nation.
No one will be allowed to fix the nation.
Getting DeSantis in as POTUS is harm reduction. We cannot take another term of Biden.
With Trump we risk another term of Biden.
They'll just turn DeSantis into Trump 2.0. Suddenly there will be rumors of an "n-word tape" and ties to white supremacist groups.
But I get what you're saying. I'd like to believe that DeSantis could get in there and Democrats wouldn't overreact but I just don't see it.
Is DeSantis GOP establishment? I think he was a Tea Party and publicly was pro-Trump since even before he descended the escalator.
They don't need to be a firebreather, but they need to be ruthless. This was the problem with Trump, he's basically good natured. You hear him on the secret tapes and it's not somebody who would pulling fingernails off with pliers. I bet if you heard DeSantis's inner monologue he'd be going off on how they can really fuck Disney and dick over liberals.
Is he GOPe? That is the ten million dollar question, isn't it?
I've been voting for President since 1992, and have been burned far too many times. I'd like to think DeSantis isn't, but 30 years of experience tells me otherwise.
Well, see my recent post about DeSantis calling for a special legislative session to repeal Disney's special self rule district. I think you're right, he is trying to fuck over Disney.
The only one I'm sure about is H. Ross Perot.
What could have been... RIP good sir!
I don't have much faith in electoral politics at the national level either. I've been telling people who want to have such faith that they need a different attitude.
Conservatives keep looking for a hero. Instead, they need to have a more adversarial attitude. Instead of getting high on copium and hopium all the time, they need to be ready to bully "their own" politicians, to turn on them when let down and especially outright betrayed. Treat them like you will have to drag them, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing because that's the only chance you have that they will.
You need a Tom Cotton, in my opinion. Someone who sees brownshirts seizing territory and burning cities as a military problem that justifies a military solution.
Tom Cotton is a self-professed neocon.
He would get the U.S. involved in multiple new wars.
Cotton is ok on domestic policy but he is godawful on foreign policy.