Going against Trump means going against the policies that make America great. DeSantis has mirrored every Trump policy here and that is the foundation for his support. Policies Floridians have demanded.
Florida has always gotten a bad rap but over the last 4 years we have had it better than any state in the nation.
We're not going back for anyone or anything.
I agree. Well said. DeSantis has been doing MAGA things here that destroy the Deep State's ability to function and the Federal Government narrative. But the reality is that there are blue enclaves in Florida that have large populations, and seeming to distance himself from Trump might be a temporary political sacrifice he had to make. That is just a tentative theory I hold lightly as I try to make sense of what I can see, and it will be proven or falsified as time unfolds. I believe the issue will disappear in any case. Those blue areas are rapidly turning red because the Democrats have literally been a disaster, and even Democrats are having to admit that Trump was right. It may not matter soon anyway for other reasons, if the intel anons seem to be getting turns out to be correct.
The other Floridian reality no one can ignore is that the patriots here absolutely love Trump, and we are loyal to him and his cause far more than any Republican has been to the Republican Party. No amount of MAGA will save DeSantis if he ever turned against Trump publicly (or even if it is was discovered that he was undermining him privately). It would be the end of him, regardless of whatever the RINO Republican establishment in Florida might do to help him. Things have changed, and that is something the Republican Party needs to realize. No one who stays on the track of fighting against Trump will survive in the coming years, or even the coming months. That will be especially true in Florida.
It occurred to me as I posted my comment that DeSantis also has to contend with the Republican establishment here in Florida, which is very corrupt, mirroring the slime of Washington with its buddy system and backroom deals. They don't want Trump anymore than Democrats do because he threatens the sweet situation they've built for themselves.
explain please. not being snarky just explain for someone that doesn't have any idea what you're talking about.
There is an old Republican establishment in Florida with connections to each other at a variety of levels. It is the reason a thing like the Finders could exist in secret for so long and then get swept under the judicial rug when it was exposed, and it's the reason we got RINOs like Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist for Governors before DeSantis. It is only the popular uprising associated with Trump that has begun to break it. This is not to say that every Republican here is bad, of course not, but the insiders who are a part of the system have a stake in protecting it, and a popular Trump still threatens them because the people who love him are no fans of corruption.
“It may not matter soon anyway for other reasons, if the intel anons seem to be getting turns out to be correct.“
Please elaborate.
The deployment of white hat military assets. Clandestine arrests. Things like that.