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desantis is a neocon, his china/trade policy, his removal of confederate statues and history, having more charisma than a wet blanket, being able to win a national election to name a few
desantis doesn't have strong "stances," he makes political plays
which is why desantis was a nameless neocon dork during his 6 years in Congress (which is why the GOP essentially handed him a R+9 district), he saw how popular trump was with Republicans, and then has been going with the diet trump act since
if someone was going to attempt to supplant populist trumpism, you would go with a softer, diet trumpism while still maintaining much of the status quo nonsense
this was true when the GOP infiltrated and destroyed the tea party and it is true now
I will take Diet Trumpism with the chance of actually accomplishing anything over current Trumpism that did nothing but tweet for 4 years any day. How hard you might desire to hit doesn't mean anything if you never throw a punch.
Trump needs to go away. He had his chance. As impotent, disorganized, and completely non-insurrection-like in character as it was, he even had a kind of semi-coup (or at least semi-coup energy) available for him to work with in J6 (even if it had failed and he had simply died for it, that would have been a far more noble use of his life than anything he's ever done before or since).
(He also planned the whole thing and knew the date so he could have easily made some better coup preparations.) He chose to be lazy and incompetent, having no real plan other than tweeting as usual, and a coward, telling his followers to go home instead of rocking the system, instead (also as usual).
That's all he's ever been, a lazy coward with a big mouth, and there's no proof he's changed. At least DeSantis, despite his regrettable philosemitism, does things sometimes.
I don't think it would be productive continuing this conversation; thank you for your comment.
You're quite welcome. I hope you will consider however reluctantly the unfortunately necessary practicality of occasionally prioritizing activity over ideological purity (though I hardly believe Trump possesses even that tbh).
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