Trump loyalists get it about Gov. Ron DeSantis. You can be foursquare committed to a candidate and still understand the prudence of having good potential prospects in the wings.
The Florida governor guided his state through COVID-19 with the kind of resolute leadership and anti-propagandist wisdom that left the Democrats floundering in their baldly partisan display of crisis-conserving overreach. Though they are loathe to admit it, the Blue State firmament now grasps how fully their pandemic ploy is exposed; DeSantis stands as a leader who got the response to COVID right.
DeSantis may have come in a distant second in the CPAC poll, but he was second. He routinely shows evidence of the kind of good-sense decision-making and political savvy that could someday secure the White House for Republicans. His admonition to “stop the mask theater” — addressed to schoolchildren but aimed squarely at the “adults” in the room — was an off-the-cuff, spontaneous public relations masterstroke.
Free the children from this madness. Trump loyalists must wonder if, in the same set of circumstances, even 45 would have done that.
So, appoint Gov. DeSantis as heir apparent. While he is definitely his own man, crown him the successor to Trump’s America First movement. It is already happening.
And yet as much as some in the GOP wish the era of Trump to be gone — some with personal grievance issues and some with valid concerns about Trump and the future of the party — there’s a much-too-compelling storyline surrounding the former president and a deep-seated sense of the need for political justice.
Even if you concede that Biden fairly won the election (a stretch of Herculean proportions), there was nonetheless a concerted and extralegal effort to undo Trump’s presidency, a collusive plot that reached to the highest levels of government. No matter the sterling credentials of Ron DeSantis or any other worthy contender, it is going to be hard, probably impossible, for the Trump Troops to let that go without a fight to the finish. Unless Trump declines to run, a prospect which seems less likely with each news cycle, he will get his chance to avenge what was done to him and his millions of supporters.
A 2024 rematch is the stuff of legend, of myth. Trump’s ascendance is already enshrined as one of the most singular developments in...
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No! Just No! I really don't want another octogenarian president now. Trump's first four years were far too contentious and I have absolutely no reason to believe a second term would be any different. I can't take the thought of four more years of getting nothing done because the left won't let it happen and the feckless congress won't do anything about it!
ReplyDeleteTrump could be far more effective in the background with a fresher face actually running the country. It's time to step out and let one of the up and comers take the lead.
This pretty much sums up my thinking regarding Trump. The chance to mess up/with the liberals is a delicious thought. The age thing doesn't bother me.
ReplyDeleteTrump for Speaker of the House!
ReplyDeleteI will support Trump. I expect him to do things he did not get done the first time. He "showed" the swamp and started to move offices from DC. I would expect him to start the drain of the swamp as he really moves out the Admin from DC. It would be easier for him to take the heat and have DeSantis follow up as a clean up guy to finish the job.
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