OPINION: 'DeSantis is such a dud on the campaign trail that it’s unlikely he can ride to victory by claiming he’d be tougher on Hillary than Trump,' writes EleanorClift
How to explain DeSantis? Desperate people do desperate things. When people are pushed and under stress, they revert to their comfort zones. And for DeSantis, that means throwing red meat to the base. He’s the king of the anti-woke, tough enough to take on Mickey Mouse and Bud Light. The DeSantis booth at Iowa’s Lincoln Dinner[DeSantis] has never been in a real fight. When Trump says he created him, it’s one of the rare times Trump is telling the truth.
The Republican Party has been successful since 1980 with racially tinged wedge issues, which brought a sizable chunk of their base. They’re watching it slip away, replaced with voters who don’t like anybody picking on some demographic slice of the population.In the eight years between Trump’s election in 2016 and the 2024 election, 32 million Generation Z voters will have become eligible voters.
Once elected governor and then re-elected by a wide margin, DeSantis had a gerrymandered legislature that did whatever he wanted. A spate of anti-woke, anti-abortion, and pro-gun legislation followed. He’s waging a 1980 war of wedge issues in 2023. They’re not enough in a primary, and they would doom anybody not named Trump in 2024.
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