The Democrats want it to be all about personality and tactics. Remember what Reagan asked in 1980. “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” Trump has the same questions to ask. DeSantis is failing partly because his donors don’t agree with the majority of GOP voters. He stepped out of their embrace once and was quickly slapped down about Ukraine. I like what he has done in FL but he has become the candidate of the uniparty. I wish Trump was a bit less obsessed with the war on him by the Biden controllers but who else would be up to the fight ? In 1976 Reagan flinched when the big GOP leaders thought he was too radical. He chose a wimp they approved of as VP. In 1980 he chose Bush who was another wimp.

Answer – No. Trump plays right into their hands. If the GOP can’t process that “but,” it’s going to be in for a very long patch of losing.

The amazing part to me is that this has nothing whatsoever to do with goals or policy. It’s all personality and tactics. DeSantis is as good as Trump on policy/goals, and probably better frankly. Yet we’re all suposed to support Trump as he repeatedly goes into the firing line wearing a neon suit with big red targets on it. I don’t get it.

And there’s your problem.

But come on, man. Look at what Trump (is alleged) to have done. He directed his employees to destroy security footage. That’s evidence that he knew that his actions were wrong. And now they’ve found the Iran battle plans among the documents that Trump previously returned to the National Archives. So it looks like he really did wave highly sensitive battle plans in front of reporters/authors with no clearances and he was lying when he said that he was just bragging about doing so.

The deep state is abusive, out of control, and a threat to the republic. And, Trump lacks the judgment and character to do a blessed thing about it. To those who counter by arguing that the deep state is going to go after any Republican – seriously, most Republicans do not make themselves such easy targets.

Recently a friend of mine spontaneously declared to me that she (a) doesn’t understand why Trump would even be “allowed” to run; and (b) she thinks he should already be in prison for a long long time. I take it that this is a common mindset on the left. This prosecution is extremely popular with that group.

So pretty much one of the many people that I will always say actually believe the first 10 amendments were a mistake and honestly think it’s ok to deprive people of said rights for the reason of “Well I didn’t really like them.” (It doesn’t matter if it’s free speech, right to trial, unlawful searches, and extreme punishments, they’re ok with it if it’s someone they really don’t like.)Note I say this because I’ve heard when I was listening to this NPR show and a couple of people spouting this were the hosts who are supposedly lawyers.