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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.