If you think DeSantis incapable of spending a few hours in front of a mirror and a few million on speech writing to nail Trumpisms correctly, I'm sure he has some land to sell you; he is in Florida, after all.
I could dance that dance myself, but I'm not an evil asshole, so I won't.
Wait... what?
That's kind of literally what I just said: that a particular model has been set for what the right expects of their candidates, and that model is Trump shaped - so whoever ends up being the new poster boy, be it DeSantis or whomever else, is going to have to present themselves in the form of that model in order to be appealing to the Republican voter base.
Oh, I see. I originally interpreted it as "DeSantis
can't follow that act with more of the same" rather than "DeSantis
must follow that act with more of the same".
My fault, I should have cropped out more of your post, because what I was responding to was just the sentence "The most dangerous thing to do is to expect the GOP to be incapable of a swivel to DeSantis or the like."
I meant to focus on it being interesting to me that even baked into that idea... that the GOP can swivel to someone else... the "someone else" is still distinctly Trumpesque.
Whoever ends up running in 2024 will absolutely be Trumpian in some way, if not Trump himself. There is zero chance of a 2024 nominee being a Liz Chaney type or uh... what's that old guy from AZ, from the Jan 6th hearing... the Republican guy who wouldn't go along with the election fraud schemes.
"100% certified evil" has been a requirement for Republican officials since at least the 60s, but now also a "bloviating dipshit" has become a more recent requirement.