A stalking horse is a figure used to test a concept or mount a challenge on behalf of an anonymous third party. If the idea proves viable or popular, the anonymous third party can then declare its interest and advance the concept with little risk of failure. If the concept fails, the anonymous party will not be tainted by association with the failed concept and can either drop the idea completely or bide its time and wait until a better moment for launching an attack.
The phenomenon occurs particularly in politics, where a junior politician acts as the stalking horse to promote the interests of a senior politician, who remains unseen in case the actions would be damaging but nevertheless wants to provoke a debate or challenge to a party colleague. In some cases, stalking horses are not working for a particular individual but may wish to provoke a response that leads others to join in. In politics, the truth about the relationship between an individual stalking horse and a candidate may never be known, as both sides may claim that the (alleged) stalking horse acted without the agreement of anyone else.
Interesting.....
New word...stalking horse...thanks for this info...I did not know this.
Formally a fairly common term in politics that I haven't heard for a while. I think the media and most of Washington knows who DeSantis is and what he represents. Their reluctance to even accept that this is a possibility speaks volumes.
Can “Stalking Horse” be applied to Myanmar and Brazil; each with their own brand of routing out election fraud? Looks like testing grounds to me. Muck akin to the various models of Communism that was fostered during WWII.
If so, all various models of Communism were Stalking Horses of their time, used to decide how to usher in Globalism, which is the next evolutionary step from Communism.
Good points. I see Myanmar as a model that educates normies about the reality of voting machines and fraud. Myanmar also seemed very important to Soros and Clinton for some reason, likely trafficking related.
Nor me..good to kno indeed
DeSantis was put out there for the media to push. The cabal had already given him the green light in Florida to present himself as a patriot making all the right moves with fake resistence from their controlled media.
If you watched the 2016 debates you saw the same RINOs pushed by the media, and every time one failed they moved on to try to tell you the next would be the winner. They tried Jeb, they tried Cruz, they tried little Marco, iirc they even tried that idiot Kasich.
They always try to subvert a movement from the top. They have been used to getting their man out front with lies and subversion or just outright cheating.
I'm right. He's a stalking horse.
From Disney to Abortion. From Immigration to Grooming in Schools.
I never had a problem with his policies and I never feared his candidacy.
Everyone REEEEEing about him didn't realize he and Trump were playing the Deep State.
I think Trump played him, but he is not a part of MAGA.
He is just another cabal Trojan Horse.
I’m thinking that Tucker Carlson same thing, cabal Trojan Horse
Desantis is Friendly foe and Haley is Stalking Horse. Therefore there were no challenges.
Haley is not a stalking horse for Trump. That is incorrect.
DeSantis has been the stalking horse, by very definition.
Just Wait and Be Amazed, I have been following TRUMP for 40 years and used some of his techniques.
I don’t think he was a stalking horse. I think his job was to soak up the GOP establishment money. Nikki’s job is to soak up democrat money.
VR was closer to a stalking horse, but his job was to drop red pills on democrat media without being outright rejected because it was Trump.
Also Trump needed a primary race for the media exposure and several other reasons.
Great. But I'm right and you are wrong
VR is also a stalking horse.
You sound like my wife. 😁
Same premise, but using the negative example is the Scaramucci model.