There is no voting out of this, nor a worthy candidate if it could be done. DeSantis and Trump will be equally blocked by the managerial state if they try to actually do anything significant, and neither has indicated they are capable of overthrowing the regime. DeSantis shouldn't run because he is far more useful as the King of Florida than the Squire of DC. It's also weird that Trump still has support after so thoroughly abandoning his people.
The best case scenario in a Trump run is for the laptop class to obviously fortify him out again. There is a large portion of the population that is completely disillusioned with all institutions of power and those institutions are beginning to doubt their own legitimacy, since the progressive narrative that they are rebels clashes with so obviously being in power. The worst case scenario is a Trump win, as the token gesture would renew faith in the system for everyone.
Regime change won't happen until the current regime blinks at a moment of crisis when a new set of elites is prepared to usurp them. This nightmare doesn't end until there are tanks in Harvard Yard.
DeSantis has also spent a lot of time securing his power in Tallahassee. He doesn't have that support structure in DC. Washington will be far more aggressively hostile and he risks the recapture of Florida by progressives.
Yes, I don't expect him to be as successful as he was in Florida (simple regression to the mean would foil that), but he would probably be better than Trump.
I am less sure than you are that exposing institutions, while a noble goal, in itself is going to lead us anywhere. They'll just rip off the mask and rule openly by force. Like Orwell said, all tyrannies rule by force and fraud, and solely force once the fraud is exposed.
It's less about exposing them than demolishing their political formula. I'm most concerned about people believing the system works and re-engaging with the progressive dialectic. For example, CNN and NYT are failing right now, which is good. Trump back in the White House would bring them to life, which is bad.
There is value in forcing them to drop the mask because foxes are terrible at direct violence of that nature, and they only have to hesitate once for the game to be over. As they ramp up the pressure through more duplicitous means, the more places start simply ignoring them, and they do have limited resources to enforce their will at the lowest levels. The problem of hyper-centralizing power is that they lose perspective to see what is actually happening on the ground.
There is no voting out of this, nor a worthy candidate if it could be done. DeSantis and Trump will be equally blocked by the managerial state if they try to actually do anything significant, and neither has indicated they are capable of overthrowing the regime. DeSantis shouldn't run because he is far more useful as the King of Florida than the Squire of DC. It's also weird that Trump still has support after so thoroughly abandoning his people.
The best case scenario in a Trump run is for the laptop class to obviously fortify him out again. There is a large portion of the population that is completely disillusioned with all institutions of power and those institutions are beginning to doubt their own legitimacy, since the progressive narrative that they are rebels clashes with so obviously being in power. The worst case scenario is a Trump win, as the token gesture would renew faith in the system for everyone.
Regime change won't happen until the current regime blinks at a moment of crisis when a new set of elites is prepared to usurp them. This nightmare doesn't end until there are tanks in Harvard Yard.
RDS has shown that he is very adept at wielding the levers of power. Trump showed the opposite, notwithstanding the obvious sabotage.
DeSantis has also spent a lot of time securing his power in Tallahassee. He doesn't have that support structure in DC. Washington will be far more aggressively hostile and he risks the recapture of Florida by progressives.
Yes, I don't expect him to be as successful as he was in Florida (simple regression to the mean would foil that), but he would probably be better than Trump.
I am less sure than you are that exposing institutions, while a noble goal, in itself is going to lead us anywhere. They'll just rip off the mask and rule openly by force. Like Orwell said, all tyrannies rule by force and fraud, and solely force once the fraud is exposed.
It's less about exposing them than demolishing their political formula. I'm most concerned about people believing the system works and re-engaging with the progressive dialectic. For example, CNN and NYT are failing right now, which is good. Trump back in the White House would bring them to life, which is bad.
There is value in forcing them to drop the mask because foxes are terrible at direct violence of that nature, and they only have to hesitate once for the game to be over. As they ramp up the pressure through more duplicitous means, the more places start simply ignoring them, and they do have limited resources to enforce their will at the lowest levels. The problem of hyper-centralizing power is that they lose perspective to see what is actually happening on the ground.