DeSantis, America’s Conservative Leader

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DeSantis – America’s Conservative Leader

While Donald Trump may talk the talk, the Florida governor walks the walk.

Competence wins over drama

Yesterday marked my first time attending a CPAC conference. It was MAGA friendly, which I assumed, but it turned out to be completely unplanned. This was all over

I don’t really get it. It’s like I am fed up with pre-Trump GOP leadership. Trump is something I like. I can even understand why someone would have voted for him in 2016 and 2020, and I don’t actually have to try hard. Although I think he was wrongly impeached due to his dishonest January 6 behavior, I’m not a Never Trumper and I have never been. It’s a strange no-man’s world. I don’t like Trump and dislike the Republicans, as well as the media that stacked themselves against him. I’m not happy about that. I get it. But I yam what I yam.

I find it difficult to comprehend why so many people are nostalgic about Trump when there is a Republican governor in place who is not only able to represent the populist conservative conservatism Trump embodied but also who, unlike Trump, is able to exercise political power and is ready to do so. Ron DeSantis from Florida is what I am referring to.

Yesterday, Gov. DeSantis took the extraordinary — but constitutionally valid — step of suspending a local, Soros-backed progressive DA who had publicly refused to enforce Florida law governing abortion and gender ideology regarding children. This is the Governor on Tucker explaining why he did this:

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Crazy Ron DeSantis expects that DAs enforce the law even if progressives aren’t happy with them! I have never heard of this! Ron DeSantis seems almost embarrassed that he is conservative. He also understands that conservatism goes beyond lowering taxes and blessing business priorities. After Disney’s insensitive ban on pushing gender ideologies on schoolchildren captives, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slapped Disney. This was something that is rare among Republican leaders: The courage to kick woke capitalism into the nuts.

More, please.

Michael Brendan Dougherty writes today in praise of DeSantis’s actions to remove barriers to conservative governance. It is impressive to find a Republican governor that doesn’t passively watch as the Left fails the will of the voters, he says. MBD favors DeSantis over Trump. Excerpt:

And maybe, as the political calendar begins winding from this long summer toward the midterms and then the 2024 cycle, conservatives will look back on the last two years and longer and recognize that DeSantis was their leader even while Trump was still in office. DeSantis was the governor who, more than any other, took on the “mantle to anger” regarding lockdown policies, and general closure of society. Florida saw a greater economic rebound from the pandemic and increased inward migration. Donald Trump was known for his openness to breaking taboos and building his currency among conservative voters. Trump seemed to be able to play the media by his rules, which indicated that he was willing and able deliver a new type of governance than what Bush’s scions were offering. In many instances, however, he would not or could not.

DeSantis may not be a wild man, like Trump, but has shown willingness to support conservative causes other deep-red state governors won’t (looking at Arkansas and Utah). He seems to enjoy the battle with the media and the corporates, as well as the bureaucracy, which are the factors that make conservative wins into long-term defeats. Who was Dr. Fauci facing when conservatives reflect on their past years? Or defeating woke indoctrination in schools? Oder putting the progressive corporate activists in their place. Who was inactive on those battles, because he was too busy sulking over drop boxes?

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Isn’t it true? Yesterday, all I saw was one DeSantis shirt (though I did not see every vendor). All else was MAGA or “Let’s Go Brandon.” The 2024 energy among the most politicized conservatives — the kind who come to CPAC — is all around a Trump restoration. This is going to be hard for DeSantis to counter if he chooses to run for president in 2024. Ron DeSantis is a real leader, whereas Donald Trump talks a lot about nothing. DeSantis is the one who walks the walk. Trump speaks the talk.

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I noticed that Viktor Orban spent a lot of time with Trump in New Jersey before Orban appeared at CPAC. Orban seems to really admire Trump and is counting on Trump winning the election. Although it might be a good bet, I have said before that Orban is more like DeSantis and Trump. While he is a taboo-breaker like Trump, Orban’s approach to politics and legislation is more DeSantis-like than Trump. Many liberals worry about Trump’s return, which is understandable. However, I spoke to reporters who speculated that CNN and other distressed media outlets need Trump to rescue them. You can freak out if you truly believe Trump is a threat to democracy. A lot of conservatives might take that freakout as a sign that Trump is the right call for 2024. A President DeSantis could be an even greater threat to progressive priorities because he is a good politician and offers conservative governance that doesn’t involve all of the Trump drama.

In fact, if Trump really believed in ideas, not solely himself, he would announce that he wasn’t going to run in 2024, and throw his support to DeSantis as his worthy heir. This would render DeSantis invulnerable. Trump will not do this. It will be a great show of politics if it happens.

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