I prefer DeSantis to Trump certainly, and I think he has done a reasonable job in Florida, particularly with respect to Covid restrictions.
However, I saw no reason for his punitive Disney move. Disney makes decisions as a company, many of which are indeed stupid, but should not be of interest to politicians.
But like Trump, DeSantis cannot resist simply getting involved with high-profile issues egged on by the media.
That concerns me. It may be intelligent of him to do so to get votes. With the feminization, political correctness, and never-ending move to the left by the Democrats, a Republican can get a lot of male votes by being a bit of an asshole. But that means he needs to keep being a bit of an asshole to keep their interest. I prefer the John Kasich types, but they get no traction. When you aren’t a woman, a minority, an asshole, or as you pointed out in a post above, a Disabled Person like Fetterman, the media won’t pay any attention to you as a candidate. Biden wasn’t any of those, but the media realized it had fucked up by centering so much attention on Trump the Asshole and Hillary the Woman, that it got someone elected who, in my opinion, was marginally dangerous. Not that Hillary was anything great. But the media at least acknowledged Biden as a result of its mistake with Trump, and they liked that he was gaffe prone, and now they probably secretly like the fact that he can’t remember who is alive and who is dead. It makes good news, and people watch. They have 24 hours of entertainment for the masses to fill up.
DeSantis might be able to straddle the line between being enough of an asshole to get attention, while still being competent. I hope so, if he is elected, since I kind of want a President who is functional. I am okay with a woman or minority who is functional if it is a Democrat as President, but that certainly isn’t Kamala Harris, and there is no simple way to remove her from contention. The only feasible way is for Biden to decide to run in the Primary and be defeated by some maverick Democrat governor who wasn’t Chosen by the Left Wing Media, while Kamala had to sit out the Primary due to loyalty. If Kamala runs in the primary and loses to a man, the Democrats run the real risk of women being pissed and not showing up in the general election. The Democrats continue to do so poorly with the male vote, particularly in rural America, that they simply can’t win without winning an overwhelming percentage of the female vote.
if it is DeSantis, and he is a competent asshole, fine. But I haven’t seen him cater to the likable, but small, Libertarian wing of the Republican Party. Maybe I have missed something. I will try to watch him with an open mind. From a social issues policy perspective, I prefer the old 1970s liberal Democrat platform. But there are so few of those Democrats left in the party, that what the Democrats once stood for might be irrelevant.
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