No-drama DeSantis: GOP looks to Florida's governor to solve Trump dilemma Analysis from JimAntle:
Trump promised Republicans he would give them so much victory they would get “tired of winning.” But since the exhilarating upset over Hillary Clinton in 2016, there has been less winning, even under circumstances as favorable as those the GOP enjoyed in the midterm elections. The intensity of the Trump era has left many people feeling tired, however.
For conservatives, it was a dilemma. The warnings about Trump’s personal qualities were vindicated by events like Jan. 6. But they were being asked to concede defeat on issues dear to them by withholding support from Trump, often by people who had confidently predicted the president who compiled these conservative wins would be a covert liberal. In many cases, these people had become functional liberal Democrats themselves by the end of Trump’s term.
This includes adopting Trump’s take-no-prisoners approach to liberals and the press. As much or even more than Trump, DeSantis is willing to think outside the box on Big Tech and woke capitalism, to move past the old Bush-era consensus on immigration. Therein lies the risk for DeSantis too. Some will say he is too much of a continuation of Trump rather than the full repudiation they crave. Never Trump will mostly become Never DeSantis. A big question is whether the suburban voters repelled by Trump will respond the same way to DeSantis’s combativeness.
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