Strawmen have empathy? You go from donors, to anger, to empathy, to acting. what’s next, feelz? DeSantis fails as an actor? How much more can you toss at that wall?

It seems that DeSantis has been more effective dealing with the media and with Trump’s excessive attacks so far. Time will tell.

Actions speak louder than affectations and packing a house.

I seem to recall that empathy was Bill Clinton’s thing. He could “feel your pain” and would bite his lip when overcome with empathetic emotion.

As to being silly, since om wasn’t able to grasp my metaphor of Anger/Reagan as temperament, I thought I’d just state it simply.

Reagan had a knack of sounding civil while being tough.

Clinton was empathetic: (biting lip) “I feel your pain”. Bush came across as empathetic (compassionate conservative). We’re in an era where a (large?) portion of the electorate are suffering from some sensitivity neurosis. Any criticism is elected to an attack. A verbal attack has now become the equivalent of a physical attack.

Why does that matter to any Republican candidate and why can Democrats get away with vicious attacks on conservatives? I think its the decades long assault on conservatives by the propagandists masquerading as journalists. We’re literally Hitler, looking for opportunities to push gramma off the cliff, starve children. It’s had an effect.

In our media drenched culture a portion of the electorate will vote for the “nice” candidate, regardless of whether the rhetoric meets the policy. And for some reason, a compliant electorate believes the propagandists masquerading as journalists because the MSM projects one uniform message. Liberals won’t watch Fox for fear of contracting rabies.

As to Trump, he has had years of experience as an actor. He packs his rallies because he puts on a good show. A sign of a good actor is the ability to portray a character as authentic. That doesn’t mean the actor doesn’t believe the role he’s playing isn’t authentic– the through inflection, intonation, pauses, facial cues the created character becomes believable.

om, I do have to say you don’t argue in good faith. Your distortions may be clever but don’t have a place here, IMO.

“A quarter or so love him and will burn the country down if he’s not elected.”

That is what the Democrats have been saying since January 6, 2020, the Insurrection that was narrowly avoided. The Democrats just didn’t have enough feds in the crowd and Roy Epps couldn’t do it all.

Half the country hates his guts and will burn the country down in order to stop him. A quarter or so love him and will burn the country down if he’s not elected.

If it weren’t for Trump we’d be in year seven of a Cruz administration right now. He may be the most destructive force in American politics since James Buchanan.

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/04/21/trump-bashes-desantis-says-florida-continues-to-tumble-into-complete-and-total-delinquency-and-destruction-n734997

If he keeps this up he will become known as The Great Goldfish. Sad.

Who is being silly when you change the subject to temperament? Not President Trump’s strong suite by any means.

You fear “donors” and the hidden men behind the Florida curtain.

The woke and gender totalitarians are turning off far too many IMO.