“ThEY WouLd NeVer AtTack DeSanTis LikE TruMp”
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Argue all you want against Trump and I will agree with you: he took his shot, and he missed. OK, granted. I have been saying that since 2020: If Trump is not in the White House on January 21, 2021 he loses my support. He isn't there, so...
But now you have to make a positive argument that DeSantis will make the shot that Trump missed. How's he going to deal with the lying Generals? While simultaneously dealing with lying heads of every other Executive branch? If he deals with the lying Generals the same way he dealt with public school administrators in Florida (withholding pay), how's he going to deal with Mitch McConnel siding with Nancy Pelosi when the Dems try to remove him for doing that because "that's not the right way to do it" or whatever BS excuse they'll use? They impeached Trump over a phone call where he exposed Obama admin corruption in Ukraine: why wouldn't they impeach DeSantis over withholding pay from Executive branch staff?
Trump thought that based on his ability to exercise authority in industry that he could go into DC and command that same level of authority. He was wrong. DeSantis supporters strike me as making that same sort of categorical error: that his ability to exercise authority in Tallahassee will translate in DC. I don't see that being the case and in fact see plenty of evidence to the contrary.
The nominee in 2024 can either be Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump again. There are no other candidates who even have a shot at winning the nomination.
I think I have already made the case for why nominating DeSantis is better than nominating Trump again.
I don't expect DeSantis to run D.C. like he ran Tallahasse. The problems in D.C. are at an institutional level. It is not possible to fix it magically through the actions of one man.
It is possible to chip away at the bureaucracy by focusing on clear policy objectives instead of blustering and grandstanding on social media.
What do I expect from a DeSantis presidency?
I expect DeSantis to hire actual competent people.
I expect him to chip away at the powers of the bureaucracy using all the power available to him.
I expect him to not care about what the media says about him and not to waste time arguing with them.
I expect him to not unnecessarily tweet out random comments that makes him unpalatable to large swathes of the electorate.
I don't expect him to be a modern Julius Caesar.
You seem to want a modern day Julius Caesar.
We are not going to be getting that regardless which of the two candidates available that we nominate.
DeSantis offers us a better shot at fixing the major problems plaguing the nation than a 78 year old Trump.
You can only pick between the options available.
In my eyes, the choice is simple.
I want FedGov discredited and have been quite consistent in my opinion that the country is better off with DeSantis as Governor of Florida and Biden as President than DeSantis as President and someone like Jeb! as Governor of Florida.
I want every Red state to look at DeSantis and ask itself why they don't have one. I want every Red county in a Blue state to ask itself why they don't have one as Sheriff. And I think that is why certain interests want DeSantis to run for President: because if he's not Governor it's easier to pretend leaders like him can't exist on the right. Because he's undoubtedly effective where he is, and I don't think he will be nearly as effective in DC.
That statement is batshit insane.
Keeping Ron as governor for two more years past 24 in Florida is not worth extending the Biden Presidency till fucking 2028.
The country cannot take another term of this hell.
Power at the state level has too many limits to actually deal with the major issues plaguing us all.
Reforming the federal level requires first obtaining the Presidency.
I rather have DeSantis as President than as Florida governor for only 2 extra years after 2024.
DeSantis' second term as governor would end in 2026. If he wins the Presidency, he loses only two years of a Florida governorship.
Obtaining a good chance to actually reform the federal level is easily worth the price of relinquishing those two years.
The part where you're off, is the part where you're assuming the federal level can, or even should be reformed. Instead of destroyed.
The future lies in securing state governments, whether to band together in secession, or to form a convention of states and abolish the present federal government and entrenched bureaucracy.
It does not lie in playing the same broken game that we've been playing for decades.
I think the institutional rot is so awful that we need four years of Trump and eight years of Desantis.
Four more years of Trump is a very hard lift on it's own.
If Trump somehow is able to win in 2024, we will be doomed to eight years of Dem rule afterwards.
Better to go with the option that gives us 8 years.