literally 32% percentage point lead holy fuck. The way the mainstream media talk about trump nowadays you'd think chuds had cancelled him and joined the libs at brunch

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      DeSantis is a lot more frightening a prospect

      He's not going to do anything meaningfully different than any other Republican. The only reason he's polling so well now is because he's shamelessly flinging out red meat. But as soon as he's in office, he'll have what he wants and move entirely to enriching himself and his cronies.

      Trump did the same shit. A few weeks of red meat that mostly got thrown out in courts, followed by Bush-tier policies complete with as much of the original administration as he could pull together.

      If anything, I might argue things will get better under DeSantis than Biden simply because DeSantis has enough of a populist streak to give people what they actually want.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          DeSantis is more of a true believer in all of that red meat he throws out

          He's definitely free about pandering. But the hard right turn before a primary is very normal in Republican circles.

          Bush ran as small government, deficit hawkish, and anti-war in 2000. He did a full 180 even before 9/11.