#wokeholic

[tomorrowusa]

When you are a single-issue candidate then people feel you don't have a lot more to tell them.

DeSantis's strategy seems to be to signal that he would be an even bigger lunatic than Trump in the White House.

Tim Miller at The Bulwark says about the DeSantis campaign...

I’m not saying that I think DeSantis would be more extreme than Trump. I’m simply observing the objective fact that DeSantis’s explicit campaign message is a promise that he will be more extreme than Trump! At least when it comes to public health, immigration, race-based policy initiatives, and LGBT+ issues. And at the same time, on the issues where Trump is objectively more extreme and threatening—democratic norms, the rule-of-law, siding with Putin—DeSantis has to date been either silent or extremely careful to challenge his opponent in language that does not preclude Trump supporters from concluding that DeSantis is on their side.

In the face of this campaign strategy, the argument proffered by DeSantis supporters to skeptics in the middle is that we just have to sit there and take it while DeSantis does nothing to appeal to us and instead works like a mule to cater to the concerns of the anti-vax freaks and the most bigoted wing of the anti-woke brigade.

DeSantis continues to augment his far right credentials in order to try to out-Trump Trump. Perhaps he's counting on Trump's legal problems taking the ex-POTUS out of the race with the MAGA crowd then flocking to the DeSantis camp.

But people do not vote strictly on ideology. Trump's demonization of DeSantis is gonna leave marks; and if Trump does exit the contest his followers will probably either support a candidate who is not on Trump's shit list or they may just skip the primaries and caucuses.