Whee doggies, as Joe McCarthy used to say. You.call DeSantis a white Clarence Thomas, but the guy you describe strikes this Boomer as the 2nd coming of Richard Nixon, without the charm or intellectual curiosity. Say what you will about Tricky Dick, he actually cared about foreign policy. I'm struggling to see what DeSantis cares about beyond the greater glory of Ron DeSantis, a trait shared with Trump. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Trump might have a healthier personality than DeSantis.
But Trump will not drop out short of death. His DNR probably says he's still running until he's declared legally dead, which would be illegal and so wouldn't count. I'd bet many quatloos that he thinks he's untouchable as long as he's running, and if he wins the very first thing he does after the swearing in is issuing himself a blanket pardon. The donations will pay the white shoe law firms to throw as many monkey wrenches a wealthy white man can buy.
And to finish where you started, the Republican Party is doing everything it can to recreate the 2016 primaries. The scattered mutterings about the Party not wanting Trump might have been true, but those people apparantly have as much pull in the Party as I do. Along side those mutterings i occasionally saw stories on how positions in the RNC had been slowly filled with Trump supporters, and i think those were more pertinent. DeSantis has convinced himself the base wants Kristallnacht (I had to look up the spelling) but that won't take down Trump, or even inconvenience him. If DeSantis had Trump's brownshirt Proud Boys lined up, I'd be a lot more worried, but I don't see that happening (so far). Unlike Trump, DeSantis would not hesitate to pull the trigger if he thought he had a chance to be Maximum Leader for Life.
Whee doggies, as Joe McCarthy used to say. You.call DeSantis a white Clarence Thomas, but the guy you describe strikes this Boomer as the 2nd coming of Richard Nixon, without the charm or intellectual curiosity. Say what you will about Tricky Dick, he actually cared about foreign policy. I'm struggling to see what DeSantis cares about beyond the greater glory of Ron DeSantis, a trait shared with Trump. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Trump might have a healthier personality than DeSantis.
But Trump will not drop out short of death. His DNR probably says he's still running until he's declared legally dead, which would be illegal and so wouldn't count. I'd bet many quatloos that he thinks he's untouchable as long as he's running, and if he wins the very first thing he does after the swearing in is issuing himself a blanket pardon. The donations will pay the white shoe law firms to throw as many monkey wrenches a wealthy white man can buy.
And to finish where you started, the Republican Party is doing everything it can to recreate the 2016 primaries. The scattered mutterings about the Party not wanting Trump might have been true, but those people apparantly have as much pull in the Party as I do. Along side those mutterings i occasionally saw stories on how positions in the RNC had been slowly filled with Trump supporters, and i think those were more pertinent. DeSantis has convinced himself the base wants Kristallnacht (I had to look up the spelling) but that won't take down Trump, or even inconvenience him. If DeSantis had Trump's brownshirt Proud Boys lined up, I'd be a lot more worried, but I don't see that happening (so far). Unlike Trump, DeSantis would not hesitate to pull the trigger if he thought he had a chance to be Maximum Leader for Life.