Let’s hear from Ron DeSantis on January 6th — 40 Comments
Compare with the statement by Sen Ted “Quisling” Cruz.
Ron DeSantis is the most effective Republican politician since Ronald Reagan.
He fights back, he is savvy with his social media, he is not afraid to bring in outside voices that may not agree with him on all issues (his online COVID townhalls with GBD scientists were awesome).
Plus, he is young which to me is becoming a big issue. I am tired of very elderly leaders (politicians and judges) who too often seem to rule on their own personal fears not on what is right for the entire society.
Been disappointed many times before (see Ted Cruz yesterday for example) but so far DeSantis is extremely impressive.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “a Charlie Foxtrot,” indeed. Let’s Go Brandon!
This guy knows what he’s doing.
Happy to be in Florida.
From wikipedia:
Desantis’s mother was a nurse and his father installed Nielsen TV rating boxes… DeSantis attended Yale University. He was captain of Yale’s varsity baseball team… as a senior in 2001, he had the team’s best batting average at .336… After graduating from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. magna cum laude in history… He then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor cum laude… DeSantis received his Reserve Naval officer’s commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School. He completed Naval Justice School in 2005. Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a prosecutor. He was promoted from lieutenant, junior grade to lieutenant in 2006… In 2007, DeSantis reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah… DeSantis returned to the U.S. in April 2008… DeSantis was assigned as a trial defense counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010. He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
I didn’t know all of that about him until about a year ago. His folks seem like modest, middle class people yet DeSantis excelled everywhere he found himself; Little League, Yale academics, Yale sports, Harvard Law, the Military… Seems like he must have some natural ability?
That short speech alone is sufficient to give him the 2024 nomination, in my opinion (assuming Trump doesn’t run). This is a man who, in words and deeds, aggressively pushes back against the leftist narrative.
I agree that DeSantis is the most impressive Republican office holder on the stage today. He said what I would like to hear from the other “leaders” in the Republican party. I wish Trump would step aside and let DeSantis have a clear shot at the presidency. He combines Trump’s combativeness with a level of administrative competence that Trump (for all his accomplishments) couldn’t muster.
Did DeSantis barely win against that Black guy who was found incapacitated by police while indulging in a gay hookup (or gay prostitute)?
Yes, I’ve thought about that before. Quite amazing.
Gregory Harper:
Of course, they’ve been trying to demonize DeSantis, and if he were the nominee they would step that up many notches. But I think they’d find it wouldn’t stick as easily as it did to Trump.
At this point, even though I think Trump did a good job, I would prefer DeSantis as nominee in 2024.
Rufus T. Firefly:
That’s a very impressive resume indeed, and I was unaware of any of it till now. One of the impressive aspects of it is that he was educated in the belly of the liberal beast. Therefore he knows their ways inside and out.
Yep I too prefer DeSantis to Trump at this point for a few reasons.
First, the youth. Trump would be as old as Biden and while he seems sharp I’m not a fan of 80 year old presidents.
Second, as mentioned above Trump’s managerial chaos is just so tiring. Hopefully he would be better the second time around but he has a long, long track record that makes me question that.
Third, no matter what they do DeSantis has nowhere near the baggage of Trump with low info voters that reflexively hate Trump.
Prayers for his wife’s recovery for obvious reasons but also so he can focus on 2024 fully in a couple years.
Now that I’m in the Free State of Florida, so fun to say that! I don’t want to lose DeSantis. I’m perfectly happy to have him stay here as governor.
His wife’s cancer could certainly affect any decision with regard to higher office.
Om beat me to it.
he was educated in the belly of the liberal beast.
I just saw an ad for a lady running for Harris County Judge as a conservative against Lena “Lockdown” Hidalgo. I checked out her website and read her platform and agree with all of her platform. She’s a West Point graduate that served in Afghanistan, which is good, but then… Harvard JD and MBA. Oh, and she’s originally from Sacramento, CA. Geez, that’s a hell of a burden to overcome to win in Texas. We really do welcome people from… what’s that, you did mergers and acquistions… I’m sorry, but you are going to have to really convince me that any of your platform is real and that you’ll stick with it, because most of your credentials suggest at best, you’ll be another Dan Crenshaw or Ted Cruz. That used to be a golden comparison, but yeah, not much of a scratch for that Harvard/Yale education to shine through.
Clearly I haven’t been paying enough attention to DeSantis.
I also, while I appreciate Trump’s accomplishments in office, wish he would allow DeSantis to run. Trump set the direction. It’s time for younger people to take it forward.
The difficulty might be Mrs. DeSantis’s cancer. I hope for the best. She’s young, and breast cancer is often more virulent among younger women.
I’ve yet to hear anything from De Santis with which I disagree. As a practical matter, I too now prefer him to Trump, who did his best but for a number of reasons simply couldn’t empty the swamp.
IMO, he can render a far more important service to the country as President than he can as a Governor.
If Trump runs, I’d welcome a Trump – De Santis ticket.
Recently, I found most disturbing reports that Sen. Cruz had dropped his objections in the Senate Judiciary committee to 30 of Biden’s judicial nominees for a ‘promise’ by the Democrats that he would get to speak on the Russia-Euro pipeline.
But I waited to hear his response to the criticism, I’ve yet to hear anything from him in that regard. Silence in the face of criticism from the right is an acknowledgement that the criticism has validity.
Now, Sen. Cruz reinforcing the left’s narrative in characterizing the Jan. 6th protest as “a violent terrorist attack” is for me a bridge too far. I will not support him for the 2024 Presidential nomination.
DeSantis is so, so good. Smooth in a good way. And he doesn’t have Trump’s baggage. I hope Trump doesn’t run so that Ron can. Appoint Trump Secretary of State.
I regret not seeing DeSantis when the NE Governor hosted him at Arbor Lodge.
And DeSantis played baseball for Yale. A plus for me.
Tucker tore Ted a new one.
GB
Trump would have to move his residence back to NY. POTUS and the VP can’t be residents of the same state.
@brinster:
The old one was getting a bit worn.
Cornhead:
Actually, they can be, except under certain circumstances. See this.
I believe that DeSantis’ opposing candidate, Mr. Gillum, had a lot of out of state money, trying to make him into a younger FL version of the Lightbringer.
But even if Trump did run and did win the nomination, I believe he would never surmount the levels of hate and TDS out there to be re-elected [presuming no meaningful election issues]. A few of my liberal friends even transfer their TDS to DeSantis, tainting Ron with his alliance to Trump during the campaign for governor in 2018.
I don’t like lawyers and I would be very curious what a lawyer did to be awarded a Bronze Star. Of course, judging by all the crap on the chest of the JCS maybe it is now just a “being there” award.
Try the interwebs, Duck Duck Go has a thing called “search.” I would imagine Ron DeSantis’s citation data are not hard to find. But lawyers are ….
ChasesEagles has a point.
DeSantis appears to have had a charmed run through the Cursus Honorum.
It is good not to be too cynical. But one should cast a very critical eye over his career because we know that the System generates antibodies against anyone who is different or threatening.
So how did he make it so far? By dissembling along the way? By experiencing a Road to Damascus Conversion when he had almost made it?
I’m not saying he’s not the real deal. Just you want to look at everything.
Million times better than Cruz anyway. Or that phony Abbott.
And there are the rare, very rare, folks who just *Excel* at everything they touch. He could be one. Like Caesar.
Unlike Caesar who could pillage the Gauls and Pompey’s Piggy Bank to fund his activities, it might also pay to look very closely at who bankrolls DeSantis. It matters. Hint: it’s not Moms and Pops and Apple Pie and Lemonade Stands.
Chases Eagles threw out a question and hasn’t bothered to follow up yet.
As usual Z makes assertions from the view of a Stage IV cynic and throws in some pot shots from Hong Kong. Endearing as ever.
@Om:
Take a look at the career of Mayor Pete. Harvard instead of Yale. A jaunt to the Sandbox to pick up a Participation Medal. Military Intelligence (sic) cf. JAG.
Put on your Critical Thinking Cap.
Just because your latest Great White Hope (err) enters the Punch and Judy Show from Stage Right instead of Stage Left doesn’t mean you don’t need to do a metric (yeah, I know) crap tonne of due diligence.
om, I am not selling the guy. I am being sold. That is a question to be answered by the seller.
When I was in undergrad, I don’t know how the baseball players did it. They had games all the time. DeSantis is exceptionally impressive in every respect.
Chases Eagles:
A curious man wouldn’t make a baseless accusation (?) although it may be true that Ron DeSantis is a lawyer and the Governor of some state. DeSantis better prove those facts too. Can’t be too cynical after all, ‘wouldn’t be prudent.’ Wouldn’t want to be sold …..
Z:
Where’s the extended quote from Mellville, to flesh out your analogy. Come, come sonny there are deep dark secrets to be told (fabricated). Such as who pulls you srtings.
As a communicator, DeSantis is orders of magnitude more effective than Trump. I simply cannot fathom why anyone would support Trump over this guy in 2024. DeSantis has a chance to expand the base. Trump does not.
The progressive MO is to throw up a verbal morass of lies, distortions, even pretending that words that meant one thing yesterday have always meant something completely different. Trump fought fire with fire and just ended up making a bigger mess. I’ve neven seen any Republican who is able to cut through the BS like DeSantis does here.
The last two Republican presidents were terrible communicators, not just below average, but really, unusually bad. That absolutely has something to do with why the left has been ascendent in the 21st century so far. I remember when the conventional wisdom was that the US was a center-right country. That was before Bush and Trump.
Trump will be 78 in 2024 and his business interests need attention. Might be the optimal course of action for all parties for him to rest on his laurels.
The optimal candidate for Vice President is (1) content to be 2d banana, (2) is an experienced executive ready to take over if such is needed, (3) has had a tour through other offices common in the biographies of our more able presidents, and (4) can make a modest but possibly decisive difference in the electoral vote count by securing his home state. Hellary in selecting Tim Kaine covered these bases.
The last two Republican presidents were terrible communicators, not just below average, but really, unusually bad.
If they were unusually bad, they would have spent their work life in the back office preparing financial statements. Both men were salesmen at heart.
BRAVO!!!
Art Deco – As political communicators, they were both awful. I don’t doubt that Bush (and Trump, for that matter) could be effective communicators on an interpersonal level. These days, that’s not the primary skill needed to build a political coalition. Neither Bush nor Trump were remotely capable of communicating their ideas to people who weren’t otherwise inclined to agree with them.
DeSantis can do that. I suspect there are a lot of people who believe (or could be persuaded) that (i) January 6th was a total disgrace; and that (ii) Democrats’ are behaving as cynical demogogues who care more about their own political power than they do about the norms of “our democracy.” I don’t know of anyone out there other than DeSantis who is speaking effectively to this group.
“Trump fought fire with fire and ended up making a bigger mess.”
Trump did indeed fight fire, and bullshit, with fire, and exposed the mess (a very polite word for the incredibly corrupt and blatantly cynical politico-elite-media cabal) for what it is. It took great courage and a hide of iron. We owe him a great deal.
I like what I’ve seen and heard of Disantis. But do not believe for a moment that he will not be hit with an incredible and overwhelming shitstorm of the same crap and worse than Trump was confronted with–and much of it from his ostensible compatriots in the Republican Party.
I hope he is that guy. I don’t see anyone else out there.
First, This was a great response from DeSantis – a known Trump (mostly-) supporter.
Second, I urge great caution in publicly noting preferences too soon – changing minds AFTER a public affirmation is often harder than before one commits to something. Politicians flip flop and flap yaps all the time, but supporters are far more consistent.
I’m sure that’s one of the reasons for more public marriage vows.
Third, it’s too soon (it’s never too soon! it’s too soon) to be at all serious about 2024, when we don’t know results from 2022.
Fourth, Trump increased his vote totals from 62 up to 74 million votes. That was HUGE expansion of voting base, almost 20%. I believe he really got that many, and don’t believe Biden really got 85 million legal votes (many illegal votes were counted, and even recounted – once dirty ballots get included, no way to exclude them); Biden might have gotten more than the almost 70 million Obama got. But the Dem media obscure the mostly peaceful protest against questionable election practices with the possibly (probably?) FBI instigated Capitol attack while Trump was still talking.
https://precinctstrategy.com/
Steve Bannon’s precinct project seems likely to increase Rep support for Trump, and especially most America First policies. How successful or not they are in getting qualified Rep candidates will make a huge difference to 2022 results … in only 10 months now.
If I was living in America, instead of Slovakia, I’d be joining the local GOP precinct group and trying to influence it. (I did run for US Congress in 1988 as a Libertarian; Ron Paul was Libber Pres. candidate then). I urge Neo and all commenters to take the first steps of finding out how to join their local GOP precinct. As Instapundit Glenn notes – local volunteering is more important than blog commenting. Tho blogs are often more fun.
I’m 99.9% likely to vote Republican in 2024, and 2022 – thru CA mail-in ballots.
Trump did fight fire and bullshit, shit-loads of both, with his own fire and bullshit. But Trump clearly loves America, tho he also loves attention.
No matter what happens Bauxite “will always have ?”
Mara Lago and OMB.
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Compare with the statement by Sen Ted “Quisling” Cruz.
Ron DeSantis is the most effective Republican politician since Ronald Reagan.
He fights back, he is savvy with his social media, he is not afraid to bring in outside voices that may not agree with him on all issues (his online COVID townhalls with GBD scientists were awesome).
Plus, he is young which to me is becoming a big issue. I am tired of very elderly leaders (politicians and judges) who too often seem to rule on their own personal fears not on what is right for the entire society.
Been disappointed many times before (see Ted Cruz yesterday for example) but so far DeSantis is extremely impressive.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “a Charlie Foxtrot,” indeed. Let’s Go Brandon!
This guy knows what he’s doing.
Happy to be in Florida.
From wikipedia:
I didn’t know all of that about him until about a year ago. His folks seem like modest, middle class people yet DeSantis excelled everywhere he found himself; Little League, Yale academics, Yale sports, Harvard Law, the Military… Seems like he must have some natural ability?
That short speech alone is sufficient to give him the 2024 nomination, in my opinion (assuming Trump doesn’t run). This is a man who, in words and deeds, aggressively pushes back against the leftist narrative.
I agree that DeSantis is the most impressive Republican office holder on the stage today. He said what I would like to hear from the other “leaders” in the Republican party. I wish Trump would step aside and let DeSantis have a clear shot at the presidency. He combines Trump’s combativeness with a level of administrative competence that Trump (for all his accomplishments) couldn’t muster.
Did DeSantis barely win against that Black guy who was found incapacitated by police while indulging in a gay hookup (or gay prostitute)?
Amazing to think about …
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-florida-gov-candidate-found-inebriated-hotel-room-suspected-overdose-n1158336
JimNorCal:
Yes, I’ve thought about that before. Quite amazing.
Gregory Harper:
Of course, they’ve been trying to demonize DeSantis, and if he were the nominee they would step that up many notches. But I think they’d find it wouldn’t stick as easily as it did to Trump.
At this point, even though I think Trump did a good job, I would prefer DeSantis as nominee in 2024.
Rufus T. Firefly:
That’s a very impressive resume indeed, and I was unaware of any of it till now. One of the impressive aspects of it is that he was educated in the belly of the liberal beast. Therefore he knows their ways inside and out.
Yep I too prefer DeSantis to Trump at this point for a few reasons.
First, the youth. Trump would be as old as Biden and while he seems sharp I’m not a fan of 80 year old presidents.
Second, as mentioned above Trump’s managerial chaos is just so tiring. Hopefully he would be better the second time around but he has a long, long track record that makes me question that.
Third, no matter what they do DeSantis has nowhere near the baggage of Trump with low info voters that reflexively hate Trump.
Prayers for his wife’s recovery for obvious reasons but also so he can focus on 2024 fully in a couple years.
Now that I’m in the Free State of Florida, so fun to say that! I don’t want to lose DeSantis. I’m perfectly happy to have him stay here as governor.
His wife’s cancer could certainly affect any decision with regard to higher office.
Om beat me to it.
he was educated in the belly of the liberal beast.
I just saw an ad for a lady running for Harris County Judge as a conservative against Lena “Lockdown” Hidalgo. I checked out her website and read her platform and agree with all of her platform. She’s a West Point graduate that served in Afghanistan, which is good, but then… Harvard JD and MBA. Oh, and she’s originally from Sacramento, CA. Geez, that’s a hell of a burden to overcome to win in Texas. We really do welcome people from… what’s that, you did mergers and acquistions… I’m sorry, but you are going to have to really convince me that any of your platform is real and that you’ll stick with it, because most of your credentials suggest at best, you’ll be another Dan Crenshaw or Ted Cruz. That used to be a golden comparison, but yeah, not much of a scratch for that Harvard/Yale education to shine through.
Clearly I haven’t been paying enough attention to DeSantis.
I also, while I appreciate Trump’s accomplishments in office, wish he would allow DeSantis to run. Trump set the direction. It’s time for younger people to take it forward.
The difficulty might be Mrs. DeSantis’s cancer. I hope for the best. She’s young, and breast cancer is often more virulent among younger women.
I’ve yet to hear anything from De Santis with which I disagree. As a practical matter, I too now prefer him to Trump, who did his best but for a number of reasons simply couldn’t empty the swamp.
IMO, he can render a far more important service to the country as President than he can as a Governor.
If Trump runs, I’d welcome a Trump – De Santis ticket.
Recently, I found most disturbing reports that Sen. Cruz had dropped his objections in the Senate Judiciary committee to 30 of Biden’s judicial nominees for a ‘promise’ by the Democrats that he would get to speak on the Russia-Euro pipeline.
But I waited to hear his response to the criticism, I’ve yet to hear anything from him in that regard. Silence in the face of criticism from the right is an acknowledgement that the criticism has validity.
Now, Sen. Cruz reinforcing the left’s narrative in characterizing the Jan. 6th protest as “a violent terrorist attack” is for me a bridge too far. I will not support him for the 2024 Presidential nomination.
DeSantis is so, so good. Smooth in a good way. And he doesn’t have Trump’s baggage. I hope Trump doesn’t run so that Ron can. Appoint Trump Secretary of State.
I regret not seeing DeSantis when the NE Governor hosted him at Arbor Lodge.
And DeSantis played baseball for Yale. A plus for me.
Tucker tore Ted a new one.
GB
Trump would have to move his residence back to NY. POTUS and the VP can’t be residents of the same state.
@brinster:
The old one was getting a bit worn.
Cornhead:
Actually, they can be, except under certain circumstances. See this.
I believe that DeSantis’ opposing candidate, Mr. Gillum, had a lot of out of state money, trying to make him into a younger FL version of the Lightbringer.
I found this article by Scott Morefield, discussing 4 items of concern for Trump to run in 2024, to be a wake up call for me: https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2021/07/19/four-things-trump-could-do-to-win-back-my-support-n2592705 .
But even if Trump did run and did win the nomination, I believe he would never surmount the levels of hate and TDS out there to be re-elected [presuming no meaningful election issues]. A few of my liberal friends even transfer their TDS to DeSantis, tainting Ron with his alliance to Trump during the campaign for governor in 2018.
I don’t like lawyers and I would be very curious what a lawyer did to be awarded a Bronze Star. Of course, judging by all the crap on the chest of the JCS maybe it is now just a “being there” award.
Try the interwebs, Duck Duck Go has a thing called “search.” I would imagine Ron DeSantis’s citation data are not hard to find. But lawyers are ….
ChasesEagles has a point.
DeSantis appears to have had a charmed run through the Cursus Honorum.
It is good not to be too cynical. But one should cast a very critical eye over his career because we know that the System generates antibodies against anyone who is different or threatening.
So how did he make it so far? By dissembling along the way? By experiencing a Road to Damascus Conversion when he had almost made it?
I’m not saying he’s not the real deal. Just you want to look at everything.
Million times better than Cruz anyway. Or that phony Abbott.
And there are the rare, very rare, folks who just *Excel* at everything they touch. He could be one. Like Caesar.
Unlike Caesar who could pillage the Gauls and Pompey’s Piggy Bank to fund his activities, it might also pay to look very closely at who bankrolls DeSantis. It matters. Hint: it’s not Moms and Pops and Apple Pie and Lemonade Stands.
Chases Eagles threw out a question and hasn’t bothered to follow up yet.
As usual Z makes assertions from the view of a Stage IV cynic and throws in some pot shots from Hong Kong. Endearing as ever.
@Om:
Take a look at the career of Mayor Pete. Harvard instead of Yale. A jaunt to the Sandbox to pick up a Participation Medal. Military Intelligence (sic) cf. JAG.
Put on your Critical Thinking Cap.
Just because your latest Great White Hope (err) enters the Punch and Judy Show from Stage Right instead of Stage Left doesn’t mean you don’t need to do a metric (yeah, I know) crap tonne of due diligence.
om, I am not selling the guy. I am being sold. That is a question to be answered by the seller.
When I was in undergrad, I don’t know how the baseball players did it. They had games all the time. DeSantis is exceptionally impressive in every respect.
Chases Eagles:
A curious man wouldn’t make a baseless accusation (?) although it may be true that Ron DeSantis is a lawyer and the Governor of some state. DeSantis better prove those facts too. Can’t be too cynical after all, ‘wouldn’t be prudent.’ Wouldn’t want to be sold …..
Z:
Where’s the extended quote from Mellville, to flesh out your analogy. Come, come sonny there are deep dark secrets to be told (fabricated). Such as who pulls you srtings.
As a communicator, DeSantis is orders of magnitude more effective than Trump. I simply cannot fathom why anyone would support Trump over this guy in 2024. DeSantis has a chance to expand the base. Trump does not.
The progressive MO is to throw up a verbal morass of lies, distortions, even pretending that words that meant one thing yesterday have always meant something completely different. Trump fought fire with fire and just ended up making a bigger mess. I’ve neven seen any Republican who is able to cut through the BS like DeSantis does here.
The last two Republican presidents were terrible communicators, not just below average, but really, unusually bad. That absolutely has something to do with why the left has been ascendent in the 21st century so far. I remember when the conventional wisdom was that the US was a center-right country. That was before Bush and Trump.
Trump will be 78 in 2024 and his business interests need attention. Might be the optimal course of action for all parties for him to rest on his laurels.
The optimal candidate for Vice President is (1) content to be 2d banana, (2) is an experienced executive ready to take over if such is needed, (3) has had a tour through other offices common in the biographies of our more able presidents, and (4) can make a modest but possibly decisive difference in the electoral vote count by securing his home state. Hellary in selecting Tim Kaine covered these bases.
The last two Republican presidents were terrible communicators, not just below average, but really, unusually bad.
If they were unusually bad, they would have spent their work life in the back office preparing financial statements. Both men were salesmen at heart.
BRAVO!!!
Art Deco – As political communicators, they were both awful. I don’t doubt that Bush (and Trump, for that matter) could be effective communicators on an interpersonal level. These days, that’s not the primary skill needed to build a political coalition. Neither Bush nor Trump were remotely capable of communicating their ideas to people who weren’t otherwise inclined to agree with them.
DeSantis can do that. I suspect there are a lot of people who believe (or could be persuaded) that (i) January 6th was a total disgrace; and that (ii) Democrats’ are behaving as cynical demogogues who care more about their own political power than they do about the norms of “our democracy.” I don’t know of anyone out there other than DeSantis who is speaking effectively to this group.
“Trump fought fire with fire and ended up making a bigger mess.”
Trump did indeed fight fire, and bullshit, with fire, and exposed the mess (a very polite word for the incredibly corrupt and blatantly cynical politico-elite-media cabal) for what it is. It took great courage and a hide of iron. We owe him a great deal.
I like what I’ve seen and heard of Disantis. But do not believe for a moment that he will not be hit with an incredible and overwhelming shitstorm of the same crap and worse than Trump was confronted with–and much of it from his ostensible compatriots in the Republican Party.
I hope he is that guy. I don’t see anyone else out there.
First, This was a great response from DeSantis – a known Trump (mostly-) supporter.
Second, I urge great caution in publicly noting preferences too soon – changing minds AFTER a public affirmation is often harder than before one commits to something. Politicians flip flop and flap yaps all the time, but supporters are far more consistent.
I’m sure that’s one of the reasons for more public marriage vows.
Third, it’s too soon (it’s never too soon! it’s too soon) to be at all serious about 2024, when we don’t know results from 2022.
Fourth, Trump increased his vote totals from 62 up to 74 million votes. That was HUGE expansion of voting base, almost 20%. I believe he really got that many, and don’t believe Biden really got 85 million legal votes (many illegal votes were counted, and even recounted – once dirty ballots get included, no way to exclude them); Biden might have gotten more than the almost 70 million Obama got. But the Dem media obscure the mostly peaceful protest against questionable election practices with the possibly (probably?) FBI instigated Capitol attack while Trump was still talking.
https://precinctstrategy.com/
Steve Bannon’s precinct project seems likely to increase Rep support for Trump, and especially most America First policies. How successful or not they are in getting qualified Rep candidates will make a huge difference to 2022 results … in only 10 months now.
If I was living in America, instead of Slovakia, I’d be joining the local GOP precinct group and trying to influence it. (I did run for US Congress in 1988 as a Libertarian; Ron Paul was Libber Pres. candidate then). I urge Neo and all commenters to take the first steps of finding out how to join their local GOP precinct. As Instapundit Glenn notes – local volunteering is more important than blog commenting. Tho blogs are often more fun.
I’m 99.9% likely to vote Republican in 2024, and 2022 – thru CA mail-in ballots.
Trump did fight fire and bullshit, shit-loads of both, with his own fire and bullshit. But Trump clearly loves America, tho he also loves attention.
No matter what happens Bauxite “will always have ?”
Mara Lago and OMB.