Because it's a pre-planned, coordinated Dump Trump narrative and astroturfing campaign. IMO (though not directly provable) the election fraud was also perpetuated along those lines, to make it appear that anyone who supported Trump or was an "election denier" lost popular support. The system is trying to protect itself.
Yep. DeSantis is good on exactly two issues: school curriculum and the coof. They feel secure on both, especially if DeSantis stops being a governor and enters the Washington machine where he can be contained. He is just as bad as Jeb Bush on every other metric.
Him "Standing Up" to Disney was... Removing their special self-governance privilege, and also encouraging the legislature to pass a bill that prohibited teachers from injecting gender ideology into schools below grade 3 or something.
Ron has made many nice gestures, but I don't see them as significant accomplishments within the broader political context.
Real accomplishments would be: Criminal prosecutions of Disney executives. Criminal prosecutions of Teachers Association criminals grooming children. I'll celebrate when we get there, not before.
It is quite astonishing how many of those on the right want to believe that you can explain our current system and news cycle as anything other than bad faith in origin.
the election fraud was also perpetuated along those lines, to make it appear that anyone who supported Trump or was an "election denier"
We had a globalist shill here doing exactly that. He accused me of being a far right Trumper for calling out the GOP's spineless response to the stolen election. Sure, I've preferred DeSantis since long before he looked like a serious alternative to Trump, but why let facts get in the way of a good astroturfing campaign? DeSantis caught my eye in 2020 when he actually did something about the BLM riots.
But yeah, obvious astroturfing campaign is obvious. Regardless of where you stand on the Trump/DeSantis debate you would have to be blind to not see that the midterm farce followed by this shilling is the blue and red parts of the uniparty colluding to purge Trump, and more importantly the Trump base. The Ryan/McConnell wing would rather destroy the party than lose control of it.
By his own actions he signaled his weakness; the strong move would have been to congratulate DeSantis and belittle McConnell for pulling out of winnable races.
Conspiracy theories aside, because he's the establishment chosen one to direct the MAGA movement away from things that might actually harm their corporate backers.
Trump not only didn't get a lot done during his presidency (the swamp was barely drained, if at all) and he's done next to nothing since leaving. For these midterms he took like 90% of the money raised for himself with only a smidge going to the actual candidates.
He's abandoned the J6 detainees, still praises the jab, is despised by a large portion of the country (not saying it's fair, but there's a fuckton of people who will never vote for him) and attacked Ron like a pissybaby because DeSantis is becoming more popular than him.
Daddy DeSantis gave us the only actual "red wave", winning in pretty much every way imaginable- even winning Dem stronghold Miami-Dade. He's been effectively governing and done a lot for policy as well as the culture stuff (he cost Disney like 200m/yr). He's got pretty much every Trump strength and none of the weaknesses.
Trump is a politically a loser- sorry but way too much visceral hate for him to run for POTUS and win. Everyone who will vote for Trump will vote for Ron, it's not the same reversed.
because he is to blame for the terrible under-performance in the 2022 election. he sabotaged candidates who would have won in order to get his own weak candidate loyalists in the primary, then they went on to lose the general.
Imagine falling for the candidate quality drivel when literal brain damage wins. Votes, and thus voters, don't matter with the current rules; ballots do.
We have to ask, why the sudden change? DeSantis is good in all.... but why dispose of Trump so fast by everyone?
Because it's a pre-planned, coordinated Dump Trump narrative and astroturfing campaign. IMO (though not directly provable) the election fraud was also perpetuated along those lines, to make it appear that anyone who supported Trump or was an "election denier" lost popular support. The system is trying to protect itself.
Yep. DeSantis is good on exactly two issues: school curriculum and the coof. They feel secure on both, especially if DeSantis stops being a governor and enters the Washington machine where he can be contained. He is just as bad as Jeb Bush on every other metric.
Yea I've not seen him strike serious blows against Disney who tried to take over the government.
Always been my stance he needs to prove himself standing for America ALWAYS not just sometimes and expect a pat on the back.
Him "Standing Up" to Disney was... Removing their special self-governance privilege, and also encouraging the legislature to pass a bill that prohibited teachers from injecting gender ideology into schools below grade 3 or something.
Ron has made many nice gestures, but I don't see them as significant accomplishments within the broader political context.
Real accomplishments would be: Criminal prosecutions of Disney executives. Criminal prosecutions of Teachers Association criminals grooming children. I'll celebrate when we get there, not before.
It is quite astonishing how many of those on the right want to believe that you can explain our current system and news cycle as anything other than bad faith in origin.
We had a globalist shill here doing exactly that. He accused me of being a far right Trumper for calling out the GOP's spineless response to the stolen election. Sure, I've preferred DeSantis since long before he looked like a serious alternative to Trump, but why let facts get in the way of a good astroturfing campaign? DeSantis caught my eye in 2020 when he actually did something about the BLM riots.
But yeah, obvious astroturfing campaign is obvious. Regardless of where you stand on the Trump/DeSantis debate you would have to be blind to not see that the midterm farce followed by this shilling is the blue and red parts of the uniparty colluding to purge Trump, and more importantly the Trump base. The Ryan/McConnell wing would rather destroy the party than lose control of it.
Because his attack on DeSantis was petulant.
By his own actions he signaled his weakness; the strong move would have been to congratulate DeSantis and belittle McConnell for pulling out of winnable races.
Plus, why the attack on Youngkin? I don't think that there's anyone who seriously thinks that Youngkin is a major contender in the Presidential race.
Yep. It was punching down, and punching down is not a sign of strength.
Trump has never had good political instincts. He is only good at serving up red meat at rallies.
He HAD good brand instincts. But the older he gets the more his preference for personal loyalty takes precedence over projecting the proper image.
90's Trump wouldn't have made such a mistake as punching down at someone who just scored a big win.
His loyalty to the NOW is being rewarded.
Conspiracy theories aside, because he's the establishment chosen one to direct the MAGA movement away from things that might actually harm their corporate backers.
Trump not only didn't get a lot done during his presidency (the swamp was barely drained, if at all) and he's done next to nothing since leaving. For these midterms he took like 90% of the money raised for himself with only a smidge going to the actual candidates.
He's abandoned the J6 detainees, still praises the jab, is despised by a large portion of the country (not saying it's fair, but there's a fuckton of people who will never vote for him) and attacked Ron like a pissybaby because DeSantis is becoming more popular than him.
Daddy DeSantis gave us the only actual "red wave", winning in pretty much every way imaginable- even winning Dem stronghold Miami-Dade. He's been effectively governing and done a lot for policy as well as the culture stuff (he cost Disney like 200m/yr). He's got pretty much every Trump strength and none of the weaknesses.
Trump is a politically a loser- sorry but way too much visceral hate for him to run for POTUS and win. Everyone who will vote for Trump will vote for Ron, it's not the same reversed.
because he is to blame for the terrible under-performance in the 2022 election. he sabotaged candidates who would have won in order to get his own weak candidate loyalists in the primary, then they went on to lose the general.
Mitch McConnell withholding any meaningful RNC campaign funding from candidates, of course, has nothing to do with it, amirite?
Imagine falling for the candidate quality drivel when literal brain damage wins. Votes, and thus voters, don't matter with the current rules; ballots do.