“ThEY WouLd NeVer AtTack DeSanTis LikE TruMp”
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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.
We can either live in reality and work on viable but imperfect solutions or we can chase unrealistic utopian ideals.
The conditions are not ripe yet for what you desire.
Yours isn't a viable solution, that's the point. It's just continuing to play the same rigged game.
No solution is viable unless it bypasses or destroys the entrenched bureaucracy and displaces leftists en masse from institutional power. Preferably, by killing a lot of them.
Getting to that point requires solidifying state power, not in ineffectually battling the federal parasites on their own lair.
That's reality. It's no utopian ideal to say that we shouldn't waste effort trying to redeem something that can't and shouldn't be bothered with. There is no part of the federal government that is sufficiently valuable and/or uncorrupted enough to make the rest of it worth keeping.
I'm afraid you're right. That needs to become a primary goal of the right and MAGA movements. On the federal level, Trump, DeSantis, or whoever we can get in as president needs to push from their side and start eliminating the federal government as much as possible because it's going to bloat back up when another Dem or neocon is in office. The foundations of the house are rotten and it can no longer be renovated. The only way to fix things is to give EVERYTHING back to the states, brick by brick. That's going to be hard for a big government guy like Trump but maybe we can put political pressure on him to do so.
From a PR and historical standpoint, it might actually look better for him. The media will attack him for anything "positive" he does in government, so don't bother. He should make it clear from the outset that his goal is to destroy and dismantle. He's coming in like a wrecking ball and bringing down the house. State why this is necessary. He'll be lambasted as usual but if he succeeds, the common man will respect him for it. From the media's "more government is always good" perspective, it will be harder for them to spin his accomplishments as failures if his answer to all their criticisms is a Chad Yes.
The Republicans never actually did that by the way. Conservative mantras of "shrink the government", "cut taxes", "end funding of xyz" don't ever lead to the functional elimination of federal government. At best it's always a temporary funding stop.