These are all good things, but as the pieces come together it's getting clearer and clearer that these are very calculated moves to try and take the party back for the establishment.

Maybe, but like I said, I'm with Trump. I just don't think that Desantis is as bad as people make him out to be, let alone bad enough to justify not supporting him or voting for a senile imbecile.

but even just seeing who comes out of the woodwork to back him should be enough to make people extremely wary.

Eh, Trump has his backers as well. Lindsey Graham being one. He probably doesn't agree with Trump on foreign policy, so I guess he wants to support Trump to retain his influence with Trump to make sure he does absolutely nothing contrary to what neocons want.

but there is a very real danger of dissipating the populist sentiment that has built up over the past decade if enough people think they've "won" if DeSantis wins.

But the same is true if Trump wins, not?

This is more an argument against cult-like following of an idiot politician than against DeSantis.

In fact, DeSantis may be better, because he has to earn their support rather than take it for granted like Trump.

That being said, I don't blame Baris for being extremely bitter when they made it very personal for him.

There's never any justification to put private grievance ahead of the public good.