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.
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.