The Window For Ron DeSantis Has Closed
Instead Of Gaining On Trump, DeSantis Continues To Slide Further Back
I’m fully cognizant in advance that a lot of people either won’t understand what I'm about to say or will reject it because it doesn’t fit what they’ve been told by their favorite authority figures. They haven't followed political campaigns since the 1988 race between George W. Bush & Michael Dukakis. Instead, they’ve made the mistake of following sound bites, the current news cycle, and superficial clickbait sites looking for outrage clicks.
But journalism isn’t about tickling ears or always telling people what they would like to hear. Truth is often challenging, especially truth won the hard with years of experience.
We All Noticed From The Start Who Was Gathering Behind DeSantis
Although some political commentators have been insisting to the Republican/Conservative base that former President Donald J. Trump’s popularity has taken a massive beating since he:
mishandled the COVID Pandemic,
supposedly ran a bad campaign and lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and
claim that this supposed under-performance by Trump prevented the expected ‘red wave’,
has now been indicted multiple times on serious felony charges and faces at least two upcoming trials
…it is long past time to go around Trump and find someone else more ‘viable’ to run for 2024, a curious development is making itself more overtly apparent:
The base isn’t listening to these people and longer. And allow me to digress for moment and explain WHY that is A Very Good Thing, that these people have lost most, if not all, of their influence over the Conservative base.
In case you don’t recognize some of the people in the following montage and don’t know who they are, you can thank DONALD TRUMP for that. Before Trump became President, the montage has many of the people considered the best and the brightest of the ‘Conservative’ intelligentsia. Before Trump.
I wish I could share the moment the scales fell from my eyes and the full realization of just HOW BADLY I’d been fooled by all these motherfuckers in that screenshot up there. Fooled for DECADES, because my face must have been quite a sight.
We now have to divide our understanding of the ‘Conservative/America First’ movement with a declination: Before Trump [BT] and After Trump [AT].
Before Trump, the people in the above screenshot were considered Conservative ‘thought leaders’, the heroes of the movement, the standard bearers of our cause, and so on.
One thing that can NEVER be taken away from Trump is just how he quite thoroughly and completely and utterly EXPOSED all these fakers for being exactly what they are: fakers. They were all faking it. They are all UniPart GOPe and always have been.
GOPe Claims Trump’s Popularity Is Fading Need To Be Seriously And Rigorously Examined Because They Lie About A LOT of Stuff - Like The 2020 Election Theft
Don’t fail to notice that a big part of their argument about why its time to move on from Trump is directly based on a refusal to acknowledgment the 2020 election rigging and then the outright theft of it when Trump was poised to win anyway on Election Day.
This is because all the GOPe UniParty “Conservatives” were all in on it. Both the rigging of the 2020 election from 2017 all the way through November of 2020 and then the frantic blatant in-your-face ballot dumping they were forced to do once Trump was cruising to victory anyway.
A lot of people who know better have been doing this stupid theater for the past few months where they PRETEND its some kinda huge MYSTERY why DeSantis’ poll numbers started tanking so badly this past January.
Well this is not hard. The moment the GOPe UniParty made it clear that The Ron! was going to be their handpicked guy to take down The Don!, the base **started turning on him**.
The spectacle of the Bush’s and the Cheney’s and the Romney’s lining up behind DeSantis and anointing him as their guy while loudly calling to the base that “Its time to come home! Come back to us, we don’t hold it against you that you DESERTED US for Trump! No hard feelings, right?!” did NOT…I repeat…DID NOT…have the affect that some morons seemed to think it would.
Ron Didn’t Get What He Needed From The Campaign Launch
He needed a fantastic campaign launch and big momentum on the campaign trail to begin closing the gap with Trump.
It didn't happen.
The window has now closed.
People who don't understand how the politics of campaigning works think its fine that after his campaign launch and then being on the trail for about a month, DeSantis not only didn't gain any ground, he slid **BACKWARDS**.
They don't grasp what they have been watching.
After months of playing coy, and delaying his announcement while he waited for the Florida state legislature to change the 'resign to run' law so he could safely return to the Florida governor's mansion in case he couldn't unseat Trump, DeSantis' big moment finally arrived.
And NOTHING HAPPENED.
Never in all my years of following these campaigns for President since 1988 have I watched a candidate drop 30 pts in the polls while everybody patiently waited for him to make his announcement & launch his campaign.
"Don't worry!" I was told. "Once he starts campaigning...!"
All righty THEN. DeSantis finally announced, launched his campaign and has been on the trail for about a month.
Any momentum?
Any momentum AT ALL?
"Well its early yet. Let's give it time!" I keep being told.
Here's what people who say this don't understand:
The entire DeSantis campaign donor team behind the scenes was PLANNING on Trump being indicted to cause a massive abandonment of the former President by his base. Which DeSantis would then IMMEDIATELY move to capitalize on.
Well…Trump is now safely indicted, right?
Its a month from the indictment and the DeSantis launch. The movement AWAY FROM Trump and TOWARDS DeSantis is supposed to be UNDERWAY BY NOW.
And its not happening. The base is not budging.
And waiting another month HOPING this movement starts manifesting itself?
Futile.
Time is not going to cure this problem.
Watching all the usual GOPe suspects, all rabid Never-Trumpers, eagerly lining up behind DeSantis caused that massive 30 pt drop since January of this year.
To make that ground back up, DeSantis needs a MASSIVE BOOST. Where is it going to come from?
I'll give you a hint: it's NOT going to come from the 3 assholes in the picture on the bottom right. Not a chance.
Its not going to come from National Review or Fox News or the Murdochs.
No matter which GOPe shill it is on the TV angrily and stridently ORDERING the MAGA base to get behind DeSantis, the base is going to ignore them. Doesn’t matter who it is. The base is now GOPe-proof. They don’t listen to these people any more. That’s the one thing people should learn from the failure of the DeSantis campaign.
If people think the DeSantis campaign can run in place for the next couple of months or even continue sliding backwards while they wait for a miracle to occur that removes Trump's massive advantage, I have some bad news for them.
99.5 of Hail Mary plays in football & politics don't work.
The Only Thing That Can Save The DeSantis Campaign Is The Miracle of Trump Going To Prison Or Dying. Who Sees That Happening?
Successful Presidential campaigns run on donated money, volunteer enthusiasm and a big ground game.
To keep the donations coming in, and to keep the people volunteering in the state campaign offices and knocking on doors and fundraising to build the crucial ground game in the battleground states, you need 2 things:
MOMENTUM and ENTHUSIASM.
So if you're telling yourself the DeSantis campaign can keep RUNNING IN PLACE or even sliding a bit further down the side of Mt. Trump and its fine because they'll just start making up that ground at last in August or September? While they impatiently wait for a notoriously corrupt DOJ/FBI to drop a miracle in their laps and bail them out?
You're about to get an educational experience.
If it was going to happen? This abandonment of Trump & movement to DeSantis?
It would have happened by now.
And it didn't happen.
There's no momentum.
No enthusiasm.
I watched influencers try to artificially generate both on social media for the past month. It didn't work and never really could have as social media is a reflection of the real world; you can't reverse engineer that to where social media influencers are wagging the dog.
You can fake it on social media and the TV but you can’t fake it in the real world.
DeSantis had a window.
A small one.
Its now closed.
Just thought you should know.
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