So… all of them? All of them prefer Trump and there‘a only one group where DeSantis could close the gap by gaining 100% of the “Someone else or not sure” group, and even then it’s only by 1%. Dude’s a dud.
The media and the right-wing machine wants DeSantis but the problem is that we still live in a democracy - the hogs get to decide. And they very clearly want Trump. Talking heads will say stuff like "Perhaps the republican base will turn on Trump if he continues to get indicted." The media still doesn't understand that Trump is a cult leader who is also a politican.
My favorite thing (so far) was early in his presidency. The media had such a horrible case of West Wing brain it entirely destroyed their critical thinking skills. They were waiting and waiting and waiting for him to become "presidential". They were 100% certain it was going to happen.
On CNN's Reliable Sources, Jeremy Scahill says: "Fareed Zakaria, if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it. Brian Williams seemed to just be in true love with the cruise missile strike."
I remember back during the Bush jr era when the equivalent was a chorus of annoying lib commentators who would say: "I don't agree with Bush, but I want him to succeed." Early iteration of the "they go low, we go high" line.
Some libs will never be able to let go of the "There's gotta be some good republicans left" mindset. Here's a tweet from a few days ago by a lib with 1m followers on Twitter, Molly Jong-fast...
Democrats just need five sane republicans for a discharge petition
I don't know what a discharge petition petition is and it amused me that she didn't even bother to explain. But I don't need to know what is is because it's DOA. It's inside baseball shit that needs GOP help to work. I saw Jong-fast on MSNBC and I could be all wrong but I don't think her "good republicans" shtick is a lie. She actually believes it. She's 100% unwilling to accept that the (extreme) maga wing of the GOP is the republican party.
Already Jeb'ed before the primaries. Even Rubio made it halfway. These Floridian presidential hopefuls get so much early buzz and then catastrophically fail.
Candidates have closed big gaps before. Look at how the Tories are closing ground against UK Labour, despite actively shitting on the country at every opportunity.
I don't think DeSantis is the guy to do it. But Trump is more fragile than these polls are giving credit for. He's still coasting heavily on name recognition and we're a long way from any public square offs outside the niche corners of the internet. The degree to which cable news media piles on our Big Wet Boy can't be understated.
So… all of them? All of them prefer Trump and there‘a only one group where DeSantis could close the gap by gaining 100% of the “Someone else or not sure” group, and even then it’s only by 1%. Dude’s a dud.
Yup.
The media and the right-wing machine wants DeSantis but the problem is that we still live in a democracy - the hogs get to decide. And they very clearly want Trump. Talking heads will say stuff like "Perhaps the republican base will turn on Trump if he continues to get indicted." The media still doesn't understand that Trump is a cult leader who is also a politican.
It’s been wild to watch the media for half a decade now completely fail to understand that Trump is the most popular Republican since Reagan
My favorite thing (so far) was early in his presidency. The media had such a horrible case of West Wing brain it entirely destroyed their critical thinking skills. They were waiting and waiting and waiting for him to become "presidential". They were 100% certain it was going to happen.
then he launched cruise missiles at Syria and Brian Williams jerked off to it on live TV
I'll leave these here...
Brian Williams - "guided by the beauty of our weapons"
"We have Oppenheimer at home." :hypersus:
I remember back during the Bush jr era when the equivalent was a chorus of annoying lib commentators who would say: "I don't agree with Bush, but I want him to succeed." Early iteration of the "they go low, we go high" line.
Some libs will never be able to let go of the "There's gotta be some good republicans left" mindset. Here's a tweet from a few days ago by a lib with 1m followers on Twitter, Molly Jong-fast...
I don't know what a discharge petition petition is and it amused me that she didn't even bother to explain. But I don't need to know what is is because it's DOA. It's inside baseball shit that needs GOP help to work. I saw Jong-fast on MSNBC and I could be all wrong but I don't think her "good republicans" shtick is a lie. She actually believes it. She's 100% unwilling to accept that the (extreme) maga wing of the GOP is the republican party.
Already Jeb'ed before the primaries. Even Rubio made it halfway. These Floridian presidential hopefuls get so much early buzz and then catastrophically fail.
Candidates have closed big gaps before. Look at how the Tories are closing ground against UK Labour, despite actively shitting on the country at every opportunity.
I don't think DeSantis is the guy to do it. But Trump is more fragile than these polls are giving credit for. He's still coasting heavily on name recognition and we're a long way from any public square offs outside the niche corners of the internet. The degree to which cable news media piles on our Big Wet Boy can't be understated.
Thank fuck