DeSantis could make a run, and would absolutely lose against the literal tens of millions of Republicans who make Trump *the most popular Republican president in history among republicans, sailing past Eisenhower and Reagan.
The question is how popular he will be on election day 2024, not 2 years out. At the equivalent point in time for the 2016 election, i.e., 2014, Trump had a popularity near zero.
That's because Trump wasn't even expected to run, and the field he was running against was some of the single most unpalatable Republican candidates ever. The best candidate that year that wasn't Trump was Ted Cruz, and not the theoretically-based bearded version we have today. The media was basically saying that the presidency was going to be decided between Hillary & Jeb, and the unanimous consensus was that everyone else wanted to vote Suicide.
That's when Trump stepped in and changed the fucking game by being an actual populist.
Trump isn't a spoiler, he's the only nominee.
Except the Libertarian party is being fucking purged by the Mises Caucus for exactly that reason.
Don't you think DeSantis could make a run?
DeSantis could make a run, and would absolutely lose against the literal tens of millions of Republicans who make Trump *the most popular Republican president in history among republicans, sailing past Eisenhower and Reagan.
The question is how popular he will be on election day 2024, not 2 years out. At the equivalent point in time for the 2016 election, i.e., 2014, Trump had a popularity near zero.
That's because Trump wasn't even expected to run, and the field he was running against was some of the single most unpalatable Republican candidates ever. The best candidate that year that wasn't Trump was Ted Cruz, and not the theoretically-based bearded version we have today. The media was basically saying that the presidency was going to be decided between Hillary & Jeb, and the unanimous consensus was that everyone else wanted to vote Suicide.
That's when Trump stepped in and changed the fucking game by being an actual populist.