Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(12-16-2022, 03:31 PM)hollodero Wrote: Were these evangelicals Trump backers from the start, or just after he won the nomination...? Or ah, whatever. Evangelicals are too weird for me to understand really. The man is a serial adulterer, divorced, betrayed his pregnant wife with a pornstar, wonders why he should ask God for forgiveness if he never did anything wrong, is apparently not religious in any aspect of his being, can't recitate Bible verses, holds Bibles upside down, makes a mockery out of religion really. Why would evangelicals back him over any other republican... I don't get it.

It's hard to say.  The GOP needs all hands on deck to win an election, and I can tell you I know people who 100% believe that Trump is an amazingly religious and amazingly selfless man who is putting himself through hell for no reason other than to improve the lives of others and to save this country from democrats who are, in some cases, legitimately possessed by demons.

I'm just not sure you can talk those people out of Trump after you've convinced them that Trump won two elections in a row by a landslide and he is, in some cases, legitimately chosen by god himself to save this country.  

That's why I can see DeSantis just sitting this one out and continuing to be a big fish in the small Florida pond for the time being.  Going head to head against Trump is hard, because you can never truly "win" against a cult.

Also, this is extreme but keep in mind that Trump's suggestions almost got his VP killed, too.  I'm not saying DeSantis should fear for his life, but it does show how beating Trump in a legimately contest isn't automatically going to be the period on the sentence many conservatives want it to be.