NYT - Trump not that bad - DeSantis is the worse
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What's the meta here? Do they think DeSantis is going to be the candidate? Are they purposefully denigrating DeSantis hoping to boost his numbers?
It's afraid!
NYT is afraid, but not because of DeSantis particularly. They are afraid that people don't read them much anymore and that they've lost control of both parties. Some of their people want to split both parties by spinning out overtly socialist and overtly fascist parties.
I honestly don't know.
I can't tell if DeSantis is for real or if he's a stooge that the establishment have picked to keep Trump out.
He's genuine, but the White House has a way of defeating reformers. The real test is how he handles internal threats from the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and State Department bureaucrats.
He's already shown himself capable of defending himself from the press.
They want to create a messy primary battle in the GOP, because the Dems will almost certainly have one.
They don't care who wins. It's a divided opposition they want.
What they really fear is Trump + DeSantis ticket.
DeSantis is seen as a more reasonable, competent, effective Trump, but less electable; he's 44 which is very young for a President, 5'9" shorter than Little Macro, and he doesn't have that stage charisma. They're not worried about him at the top of the ticket.
DeSantis VP would be a huge boost to Trump because he's a guy people wouldn't pick as their first choice, but most from either side would be fine with taking over in case Trump goes nuts or dies as opposed to Pence and Kamala which were VPs of mutually assured destruction (if you 'first strike' our Pres you'll regret it). He's the control rod not the second strike.
Trump/DeSantis is probably an unbeatable ticket even with cheating.