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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://open.substack.com/pub/richardhanania/p/the-biomechanics-of-trumpism?r=bhpmd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

1. It’s not about economic anxiety

2. It’s not about social/racial/work issues

“ give the people “Trumpism without Trump.” Surely the voters who saw Trump as the answer to their grievances would jump at the opportunity to vote for such a leader, if only given the chance. 
This was the theory of the Ron DeSantis campaign. I say “was” rather than “is,” because even though he hasn’t announced yet, it sort of feels like it’s over. ”

3. Political science tries to figure out what people want or believe based on what they say. But in the realm of personal relationships, humans are pretty bad at explaining why they prefer some individuals over others.

4. At a gut level, people understand that part of the reason DeSantis won’t talk to the media is that he’s afraid of them, while pretending that he’s standing on some kind of principle. We all know that if DeSantis goes on CNN, he might be forced into a gaffe, or his voice might crack at the wrong time in response to a hostile question.

5. Some men worry about saying the wrong thing when talking to a woman, but the higher status male is the guy who can say whatever he wants. This is the difference between DeSantis and Trump.

[b]6. The Republican voter is not attracted to ideas, but has a sense of alienation from elites and mainstream institutions, and simply wants someone loud and obnoxious enough to fight with them. And since he mostly just wants to grill and politics is a secondary concern in his life, he is not tuning in unless the show is particularly entertaining.[/b]

No one has fully describe the WHY of trumps success like Hanania has.[/quote]

6 is correct. 1-5 are off.

Hannia is not saying anything new. The Pomona guys and Bronze Age Pervert have said variations of 6 since 2016.

I think you’re misunderstanding DeSantis. DeSantis knows that Trump clown show antics are incredibly helpful to Trump in the primary and get Trump attention. But those antics hurt Trump in the general and then become a huge distraction to governing.

DeSantis is, more realistically, the more dangerous of the two. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him substantively, DeSantis is trying to create a real movement that has a chance at actually governing after an election. So he can’t and won’t go full on inflammatory on a personal level like Trump because the price for that behavior has to be paid after an election.

I think that’s why you’re seeing donors pull back from DeSantis. Trump, for all of his odious behavior, is a self-defeating machine and ultimately poses no real threat to the party elite. He’s a toddler pushing buttons in an airplane cockpit. He’ll never get the thing off the ground. DeSantis is actually breaking with party orthodoxy in some respects (see his war with Disney). I think the donors fear that DeSantis may follow through on a more right wing populist movement.

Jonathan Chait (I think) had a good piece on DeSantis and the media. DeSantis absorbed the Trump lesson of unrelenting hostility toward the media and get your message to the people directly. [/quote]

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