I still strongly thing that Trump is not only the primary favorite, but also by far the best candidate for the Republicans (in terms of winning). I mean, we know for a fact that he will do well and will get people out to the polls and that the race will be close electorally. DeSantis might do as well, I guess, but he is also drawing live to being a Goldwater level loser (and pretty likely imo).
For six years we have been inundated with people who say they like Trump as a president but wish that he would tone it down with the tweets. And this has always been the most transparent bullshit imaginable. His tweets are the best thing about him! They are the very reason he became president! It’s his bulk of his value proposition.
Is the case for DeSantis that a plurality of American voters wants the government to be very serious as they get to the solemn business of being mean to gays, immigrants and um, school librarians? I mean, I’ve been wrong before. But color me skeptical.