2y ago

News: Ron DeSantis slashes more than a third of staff as campaign flounders

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Ron DeSantis slashes more than a third of staff as campaign flounders

Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful cuts 38 jobs, including two senior advisers

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Die faster, fascist campaign.
- The depressing part is it's taking THIS LONG for his campaign to finally show real wounds. Hope this trend continues
If you can't run a campaign successfully and you can't run a state successfully 🤔
Nothing makes me happier than seeing this monster fall on his face.
The Disney thing is what did him in. It was such a stupid fight to pick. Even if he had, in any form, won that fight, he still would’ve lost, because he would’ve harmed his state’s largest employer, and therefore Florida’s economy (and a major donor to his campaign).
It was a stupid, completely bad political move. It undercuts his “Trump, but competent” image. Donald Trump, or more importantly, a competent version of Donald Trump, would’ve moved the goalposts to somehow declare victory and give up on that fight.
He only built the “competent” image because his party controls the state legislature. It’s easy to pass stuff when you control the whole government. It’s not an impressive political accomplishment.
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he had to see this coming, or he wouldnt have had them obliterate the rules so he could run and not give up his current job. theres no win here... hes just going to go back to leading florida down fascist way
- He's a bellwether for the party. "How far can we push the message". That's not ironically the exact purposes of primaries when you get down to it - consolidating a party message. You use different politicians to highlight different aspects, send them out and get the feedback. They'll do it for healthcare platforms the same way they will for fascist ones. Same game rules apply.
  Might seem kind of snarky to generalize actual states and actual people and their actual lives as game theory, but that's exactly what they do. Because it works. Every major party engages in that kind of thing worldwide.
I really thought DeSantis was going to give Trump a run for his money. It seems increasingly unlikely.
- the perfect scenario has both of them running next election, possibly either or both disgraced. It would be gold if they run together and argue over who gets to be president.
- The problem for DeSantis is that he has all the charisma of a wet paper bag. The fascists love Trump not because of his policies or whatnot, but because he is charismatic as all hell while owning the libs. DeSantis is a capable fascist, he can get bad things done, but he doesn't have the theatrics to get into power.

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