The media programming is there, but what about the brainwashing? Normies currently believe Trump tried to stage a coup, whereas normies have only just been introduced to Desantis. Desantis's covid strategy paid off as his state did just as well as everyone else, yet the economy was not held back. That was the one thing the media could have tagged to desantis, and it failed.
Desantis presents himself better, and the programming against him is no nearly as entrenched as Trump.
The media programming is there, but what about the brainwashing? Normies currently believe Trump tried to stage a coup, whereas normies have only just been introduced to Desantis. Desantis's covid strategy paid off as his state did just as well as everyone else, yet the economy was not held back. That was the one thing the media could have tagged to desantis, and it failed.