Exactly. The nation is broken on a fundamental level. There is not one institution which is still trusted by at least half, possibly even less, of the American people. Trump understands that Ron does not.
i disagree - what made desantis so popular was his “libertarian” approach to coronavirus in which he allowed individuals to decide what was most important- protection from disease or financial well-being. i believe his commanding victory in the governor election was due to the luring of moderates for this very reason. compare this to his authoritarian approach to disney and the transgender movement - though he exposed the danger of the DEI movement, his approach to using big government to go after it went against his “brand.” had he remained consistent in his platform of “individual choice,” i have no doubt he would have been a more competitive candidate
I know this sounds conspiratorial, (but see Coleman's essay nearby on George Floyd), Ron's 'authoritarian approach' may be more of a creation of biased media than most people recognize. That media is running out of influence, but their signature moves are still effective, i.e Trump slander, January 6 'insurrection', DeSantis slander, COVID panic, racial panic, Palestine praise. I switched from DeSantis to Haley, only becuase the media campaign against him had been so effective, not becuase it was true. Disney is part of that media machine, they went to the mattresses and got results.
I 100% agree. By getting lost in the Disney/DEI sauce, he lost the average Republican base to issues that only matter to the chronically online. Had he just kept reminding Conservatives that most of the COVID policies they hate (Dr Fauci and Operation Warp Speed) were overseen by Trump, he would've had a real chance.
The reason that DeSantis could not be Trump (and I say this as a Trump supporter who likes DeSantis) is that the ridiculous lawfare against Trump turned him into a martyr for us.
Republicans HAD TO support Trump, because to abandon him in the face of these bullsh*t legal persecutions would set a precedent, to be used in every election, where the far-left would use the exact same lawfare on ANY strong GOP candidate.
We cannot let the radical left control who our nominee is.
I keep thinking I'm going to wake up one morning and Republican voters will also wake up. I have and will never understand the power of Trump. I also don't understand why we would put him, the 2020 loser (as he likes to call people) up against Biden, again. And if he loses again, well of course, it's
a rigged election...there is no other outcome. Desantis and Haley both subscribe pretty strictly to conservative ideology and have more professionalism, intelligence and (out on a limb) a stronger moral compass in their little finger than donald does. And their use of the the English language spans far more than the 25 words in donald's vocabulary. IMO, Desantis or Haley will wipe the floor with Biden (assuming he even makes it). SMH in PA....
Do you understand the power of Biden? Pulease explain the power of Biden. We were safe, economy was good and BORDERS were safe with Trump.You don’t understand the power of Trump????
I was all in on Desantis after the 2022 midterms and his re-election. I thought he could actually begin the process of scaling back this government behemoth. But as soon as Trump announced he was running, Desantis should have packed it in and waited for 2028. Now he has the stink of Trump on him, and his presidential aspirations are over. Notice how none of the people who lost to Trump in 2016 (Cruz, Rubio, Bush, etc) ran again this time other than Christie because they were all permanently tainted by running against Trump. Desantis should have read the room and the mood of the electorate and as you say realized that right now people want entertainment and combativeness and anger, hoping that in 2028 there would be a return to issues-driven politics that he would have taken advantage of. Of course having said that, when Trump loses to Biden this year, would you be shocked if an even less coherent and less energetic Trump runs again in 2028 at 81 years old...
I must disagree that people want "Entertainment and combativeness and anger". I believe what people want is "the swamp" which has reared it's ugly head in open fashion particularly this past year to be destroyed. Clearly the Democrats have arranged for the many lawsuits and criminal cases against Trump (visits to the White House before announcing the charges) and the GOP as a party has done nothing to defend him. The excessive prosecution of J6 defendants has been disgusting. If Trump isn't re-elected I don't know if our country will withstand it because our FBI and DOJ have been weaponized against political dissidents (those who don't tow the Democratic party line). No matter what, the current status quo needs to be shaken up. It will be ugly but sometimes growth requires ugliness.
Dear Bari Weiss and the rest of the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka the Free Press) Team:
News flash: No one should have ever TRUSTED INSTITUTIONS in the first place...
Where the fuck did you people learn critical thinking skills?
America is not broken because, despite what idiocy you believe, it was never FIXED except, of course, when the black savior, Obama, was in charge. From 2008-2016 America was clearly a paradise and we all "trusted our institutions"...
Or maybe it’s that DeSantis is an utter bore better suited to annoyingly whining about mickey than running a mass movement. And I agree with DeSantis, yet I still find him gratingly petty.
American politics are nowhere near as important as we like to pretend. It’s so not important that the lefty’s nominate the brain dead and the diversity hires. But a short, boring, annoying twat? Nope. No party wants that.
People were listening to him until he spent all his political capital taking on Disney and trying to enact the same kind of codes in Florida that the Democrats are trying to enact from the other side.
Anti-woke is just as bad as woke - both require the underlying concept that speech should be controlled.
Trump beat him easily because the better response to woke is to fight against their control - to refuse accept that control of speech is a battlefield that can be won or lost. Trump beat Haley because you cannot appease those who wish to use the government to try and control speech. "No, really, we're not that bad," is not a great rallying cry.
DeSantis seems to understand that we're in a vital battle over whether the US "experiment" will continue to be a viable form of government. Unfortunately, he didn't understand that pesky liberty concept all that well.
DeSantis was my first choice for a long time. However, Trump and Vivek both came out stronger against the deep state and the left’s machine of gas lighting, censoring and msn media propaganda. I also agree the democrats have been propping up Trump. They would never win against DeSantis or Vivek. They have been working hard to put DeSantis down and Vivek irrelevant.
democrats want to run against trump. the democratic media, the MSM, wants the nominee to be trump. its good business and the candidate they think they can defeat. haley is in it with backing from the democratic press to make sure to split the anti trump vote. Desantis was being hit on all sides for a whole year. he never had a chance
As an Australian I don't get to vote. But I am pleased that Trump prevails. I really, really want to see America great again.
You guys have to get rid of Albanese and his band of Labour Leftists.
How far you guys have fallen since John Howard.
Exactly. The nation is broken on a fundamental level. There is not one institution which is still trusted by at least half, possibly even less, of the American people. Trump understands that Ron does not.
That is the issue, same here in canada, more and more people don’t trust or believe the institutions and everything they do makes it worse.
Nothing but lies everywhere we turn.
i disagree - what made desantis so popular was his “libertarian” approach to coronavirus in which he allowed individuals to decide what was most important- protection from disease or financial well-being. i believe his commanding victory in the governor election was due to the luring of moderates for this very reason. compare this to his authoritarian approach to disney and the transgender movement - though he exposed the danger of the DEI movement, his approach to using big government to go after it went against his “brand.” had he remained consistent in his platform of “individual choice,” i have no doubt he would have been a more competitive candidate
Disney needs to be shut down. Disney should relocate to a blue cesspit. Transgenders need to move to blue cesspits along with Disney.
I know this sounds conspiratorial, (but see Coleman's essay nearby on George Floyd), Ron's 'authoritarian approach' may be more of a creation of biased media than most people recognize. That media is running out of influence, but their signature moves are still effective, i.e Trump slander, January 6 'insurrection', DeSantis slander, COVID panic, racial panic, Palestine praise. I switched from DeSantis to Haley, only becuase the media campaign against him had been so effective, not becuase it was true. Disney is part of that media machine, they went to the mattresses and got results.
I 100% agree. By getting lost in the Disney/DEI sauce, he lost the average Republican base to issues that only matter to the chronically online. Had he just kept reminding Conservatives that most of the COVID policies they hate (Dr Fauci and Operation Warp Speed) were overseen by Trump, he would've had a real chance.
The reason that DeSantis could not be Trump (and I say this as a Trump supporter who likes DeSantis) is that the ridiculous lawfare against Trump turned him into a martyr for us.
Republicans HAD TO support Trump, because to abandon him in the face of these bullsh*t legal persecutions would set a precedent, to be used in every election, where the far-left would use the exact same lawfare on ANY strong GOP candidate.
We cannot let the radical left control who our nominee is.
I keep thinking I'm going to wake up one morning and Republican voters will also wake up. I have and will never understand the power of Trump. I also don't understand why we would put him, the 2020 loser (as he likes to call people) up against Biden, again. And if he loses again, well of course, it's
a rigged election...there is no other outcome. Desantis and Haley both subscribe pretty strictly to conservative ideology and have more professionalism, intelligence and (out on a limb) a stronger moral compass in their little finger than donald does. And their use of the the English language spans far more than the 25 words in donald's vocabulary. IMO, Desantis or Haley will wipe the floor with Biden (assuming he even makes it). SMH in PA....
Do you understand the power of Biden? Pulease explain the power of Biden. We were safe, economy was good and BORDERS were safe with Trump.You don’t understand the power of Trump????
Did I say anything about Biden being powerful? That about the farthest thing from reality.
That is why people vote for Trump. He is better than the Biden Administration. That is the power of Trump.His policies are good.
almost anyone would be better than biden. The bar is low.
I'll tell you the power of Trump. Nobody stands up to the far left, which has captured every institution in America, like he does.
He is the only one right now with the cojones to try and roll it back.
I was all in on Desantis after the 2022 midterms and his re-election. I thought he could actually begin the process of scaling back this government behemoth. But as soon as Trump announced he was running, Desantis should have packed it in and waited for 2028. Now he has the stink of Trump on him, and his presidential aspirations are over. Notice how none of the people who lost to Trump in 2016 (Cruz, Rubio, Bush, etc) ran again this time other than Christie because they were all permanently tainted by running against Trump. Desantis should have read the room and the mood of the electorate and as you say realized that right now people want entertainment and combativeness and anger, hoping that in 2028 there would be a return to issues-driven politics that he would have taken advantage of. Of course having said that, when Trump loses to Biden this year, would you be shocked if an even less coherent and less energetic Trump runs again in 2028 at 81 years old...
I must disagree that people want "Entertainment and combativeness and anger". I believe what people want is "the swamp" which has reared it's ugly head in open fashion particularly this past year to be destroyed. Clearly the Democrats have arranged for the many lawsuits and criminal cases against Trump (visits to the White House before announcing the charges) and the GOP as a party has done nothing to defend him. The excessive prosecution of J6 defendants has been disgusting. If Trump isn't re-elected I don't know if our country will withstand it because our FBI and DOJ have been weaponized against political dissidents (those who don't tow the Democratic party line). No matter what, the current status quo needs to be shaken up. It will be ugly but sometimes growth requires ugliness.
Dear Bari Weiss and the rest of the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka the Free Press) Team:
News flash: No one should have ever TRUSTED INSTITUTIONS in the first place...
Where the fuck did you people learn critical thinking skills?
America is not broken because, despite what idiocy you believe, it was never FIXED except, of course, when the black savior, Obama, was in charge. From 2008-2016 America was clearly a paradise and we all "trusted our institutions"...
Or maybe it’s that DeSantis is an utter bore better suited to annoyingly whining about mickey than running a mass movement. And I agree with DeSantis, yet I still find him gratingly petty.
American politics are nowhere near as important as we like to pretend. It’s so not important that the lefty’s nominate the brain dead and the diversity hires. But a short, boring, annoying twat? Nope. No party wants that.
People were listening to him until he spent all his political capital taking on Disney and trying to enact the same kind of codes in Florida that the Democrats are trying to enact from the other side.
Anti-woke is just as bad as woke - both require the underlying concept that speech should be controlled.
Trump beat him easily because the better response to woke is to fight against their control - to refuse accept that control of speech is a battlefield that can be won or lost. Trump beat Haley because you cannot appease those who wish to use the government to try and control speech. "No, really, we're not that bad," is not a great rallying cry.
DeSantis seems to understand that we're in a vital battle over whether the US "experiment" will continue to be a viable form of government. Unfortunately, he didn't understand that pesky liberty concept all that well.
I consider my personal job in life to be Savodnik Hater-In-Chief. I find this to be passable and I *shudder* agree.
I think I just threw up in my mouth saying that.
DeSantis was my first choice for a long time. However, Trump and Vivek both came out stronger against the deep state and the left’s machine of gas lighting, censoring and msn media propaganda. I also agree the democrats have been propping up Trump. They would never win against DeSantis or Vivek. They have been working hard to put DeSantis down and Vivek irrelevant.
democrats want to run against trump. the democratic media, the MSM, wants the nominee to be trump. its good business and the candidate they think they can defeat. haley is in it with backing from the democratic press to make sure to split the anti trump vote. Desantis was being hit on all sides for a whole year. he never had a chance