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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like his actions (Eg banning dei at colleges) surely must alienate the entire Black vote, a chunk of the Hispanic and Asian American vote, all of gen z and most college Ed whites. Can someone explain how he wins on a national level with this strategy? Makes no sense to me [/quote]

This article may be capturing the current zeitgeist of the American right, and that their “anti-woke” actions may have broader appeal than the American left’s progressivism:  https://americanmind.org/memo/woke-revolutionaries-versus-americanists/

If the right had a truly charismatic leader to articulate its vision, I’d hazard a guess that they’d have significant electoral victories in the near term.  That they don’t is keeping things competitive.  [/quote]

"Charisma" is totally overrated when it comes to elections.

Hell, Joe Biden got elected.  [/quote]

Bidenly is widely seen as nice and kind. DeSantis... doesn't have that going for him.[/quote]

Who knows what runs through peoples minds when they think about DeSantis.  People come up with their own weird and delusional views of people, like the ones who somehow built Trump up in their fevered minds from bloated loaf of cheeseburger cholesterol candidate to being some kind of buff lean and mean hero figure (even photoshopping his head onto Stallone's "Rocky.")
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I am the one who said Biden is nice - yeah that is really weird with Trump.[b] The whole worship of Trump is so weird.[/b] If there has ever been someone who didn't deserve worship - well, anyway. And yes I see some of that happening with DeSantis, too. The thing is that people had decades of experience with Trump before he decided to run for president. [b]DeSantis has been governor for not quite five years, and hasn't really been stress tested.[/b] I live in Florida - and I cannot emphasize enough how unimpressive he is when you actually hear him talk. [b]He has not been stress tested for decades.[/b] He's a bad debater.

Maybe that doesn't matter anymore - he's managed to build up a mythology about himself that Republicans seem to be really buying (gd help them). Maybe that's enough to overcome his personal defects, which are plenty.

Let's say he even does win a R primary - he still has to win the general. And again, let me say, I cannot emphasize enough how unappealing this guy is.

He could win. I am terrified of it. But he suc*s as a person.[/quote]

Am I the only one who remembers all those "Hope" posters everydamnwhere in 2008?If that wasn't a bit of "worship" I don't know what is. President Obama wasn't "stress-tested" and he was never a state-level (or any other kind of) executive.

On the plus side, President Obama never created a "God chose a fighter" campaign ad, so he's got that going for him. [/quote]

I don't mean stress tested in that he's had hard jobs for a long time - Trump CERTAINLY did not meet that requirement. I mean stress tested in the public eye. As in, he's not just good as an idea, but he can hold up to the relentless, day to day, minute by minute scrutiny that comes once you are running for president. I'm not saying that someone who doesn't have tons of experience can't hold up to that - you just don't know if they can, before they do it. Look at all the good on paper Republicans who fell apart once they ran for president. Democrats, too - heck if Beto isn't example 1 of this.

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