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It seems like Trump is getting his twitter back. The weird thing is I think red tribe doesn’t want him to get twitter back. I don’t. Blue tribe will put up a big fight over it but actually be very happy if he got twitter back. Then they get his tweets to rally against. For now Musks says he’s thinking about it. From a free speech absolutist view he does have to approve it. But I still want him to say no.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673844996288512?s=46&t=o4yJPOOQnQoAxYXvJuPdlQ
It seems conceivable that letting him back on after the midterms might work to Republicans' ultimate advantage. It feels like the electorate has turned against insane clown shows, so Trump putting on his insane clown show might actually move the primary toward DeSantis, and render hollow further attempts by the Democrats to pin Trump to the modern GOP.
But if I had my druthers, he'd stay off -- or better yet, die peacefully in his sleep from natural causes.
why is Desantis winning a primary to the Republicans' "ultimate advantage"?
it would be the destruction of the GOP
Because DeSantis is a better politician: more capable of winning, and more capable through competence and effectiveness in office at growing his political strength and the strength of his party. He has demonstrated this during his time in Florida. Trump has demonstrated the opposite.
Even if this was possible (it's not absent some sort of disqualification move), Desantis winning the primary against Trump would not only end his political career, but destroy the GOP because Trump could easily run as an independent. How would this be an "ultimate advantage" to the Republican Party?
And if we're going to go into candidate quality which I think is less important than the totally legitimate ballot harvesting schemes put in place across the country, Desantis is still lackluster.
Is there a single state outside of Florida (and even there it's arguable) where Trump doesn't lead Desantis by large margins in favorability? Is Desantis the one "growing his political strength and the strength of his party" in Florida given others in statewide office did even better or is it the tight voting controls and 300,000+ rightwing lockdown refugees moving to the state?
Did you know Desantis was a congressmen for 6 years? You remember what a great politician he was then? What part of his political genius is why he was given an R+9 to R+20 district? What part of his political genius required Donald Trump to drag him to a win by only 30,000 votes in 2018?
The current push by neverTrumpers, establishment GOP derps, and con inc., to fluff up Desantis as a tool against Trump is going to harm Desantis, he will not beat Trump, and even if he did he would lose the national election in hilarious fashion.
Agree to disagree!
neocon desantis who became popular as diet trump being pushed to the forefront by all the worst people in the most manufactured popularity campaign since lex fridman
it will harm desantis, harm trump, and destroy the GOP which is probably good tbh but claiming it would be an "ultimate advantage" is just detached from reality
it's unsurprising you are unwilling to engage in anything resembling a fleshed out argumentWhy is it unsurprising? What are you implying here?
Avoid inserting this kind of sneer into the discussion.
it's unsurprising because the user has written a half-dozen similar low-effort comments making assertions and then refusing to explain them let alone offer support in this thread
you're right, I shouldn't have written that and will avoid it from now on
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