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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

DeSantis is pretty cool. If he raises the voting age to 25 and defunds all public education, I think he might be the ONE

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skyzyks's avatar

Yes, yes it is. But…are there enough Republicans of like mind to be able to staff a DeSantis administration? Are there enough to be able to remake the various agencies that comprise the 5th estate? Trump was destined to fail because he brought almost no one with him to DC. His retinue was pretty small.

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Jfan's avatar

Trump didn't care about any issues. His criticism of the swamp was just noise coming out of a man who railed at the TV that they were all a bunch of bums. DeSantis, by contrast, has ideas. Nixon had no reserve of conservatives to fill an administration: As detailed by Martin Anderson, he had only Democrats from the beginning, which is why his domestic policy moved so far left. Today things are different. There are plenty of Republicans to staff an administration if the staffers are actually led by an ideologue at the top, and don't spend their time pulling cheap political stunts and thinking they're accomplishing something. The RNC staffer who issued a press release ridiculing John Bolton as a warmonger was probably once a valuable asset to the conservative movement, but without a conservative leader he became useless.

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