Friday, May 26, 2023

If you vote for DeSantis in 2024 you will be voting for the pirate City of London

Editor's note: If you think for a second the title of this blog post is an exaggeration, you might want to start doing some background reading on the presidential candidate from Florida. When the US gets taken back to the far right as we see happening now, the pirate City of London wants to be in firm control of America's direction. You're just along for the ride - and so are the folks at The Washington Free Beacon. It's not DeSantis' doctrine. It is the City of London's doctrine and it's called commercial warfare - on you. Are you going to buy into their concepts to control you? "The battle for the new right." That's the script folks. It's a battle alright. And as far as DeSantis' position on Covid injections are concerned, what's the point? It's just political theater. The damage has already been inflicted with more people than ever onto the pharmaceutical assault on civilization. DeSantis has about as much charisma as a wet dish rag.

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Source: The Washington Free Beacon

The DeSantis Doctrine

Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
By Matthew Continetti | May 26, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) announced his presidential candidacy during a Twitter Spaces event Wednesday, but it was Elon Musk's show. The Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO received co-billing. Moderator David Sacks, an investor and former executive at PayPal, said the technical snafu that botched the conversation was a consequence of Musk's enormous Twitter audience. DeSantis thanked Musk for buying Twitter and turning it into a platform for free speech. Each of the guests lauded Musk's ingenuity and courage before asking DeSantis a question. One especially obsequious Republican congressman bragged that he owned a Tesla.

DeSantis would make a point on some issue and then Musk would respond, calmly and commandingly, in his mellow South African accent. It was easy to forget that you were listening to a campaign launch and not the Wall Street Journal's "Future of Everything Festival." Occasionally DeSantis would fall silent, and Sacks and Musk carried on without him. Musk might as well have been the candidate—and there is reason to think that, but for the Constitution, he would be.

The Twitter glitches got most of the attention, but what fascinated me were the exchanges between DeSantis, Sacks, Musk, and others. The dialogue not only revealed aspects of DeSantis’s primary strategy. It also clarified some of the animating ideas behind DeSantis's corner of the New Right. For the contest between former president Donald Trump and DeSantis is not just over who will lead the GOP. It is also a struggle between two concepts of the New Right, pitting the former president's MAGA populism against the Florida governor's institutional culture war.

No one needs a lesson in Trump's impulses and grudges. They have been at the center of our public life for six years. What's important to recognize is that, despite his personal idiosyncrasies, Trump is an archetypal American figure.

Tribunes of the people have sprung up to rail against the Eastern elites for centuries. Jackson, Bryan, Wallace, Buchanan, Perot, Palin—the list is long. All of them have identified scapegoats, indulged in conspiracy theories, and cultivated personal followings. All of them have spoken in straightforward, declarative language. All of them have drawn huge crowds by telling the dispossessed that social status can be reclaimed by throwing out the corrupt elite and replacing it with the leader's steady hand. Their nationalism and traditionalism have been leavened by a folk libertarianism that distrusts centralized power and is individualistic and entrepreneurial in spirit.

Populists may criticize institutions as dysfunctional and debased, but they don't really know what to do with them. Populists are rarely put in charge. When they do find themselves in positions of authority, the result is often confusion and disarray. They possess neither the expertise necessary to manage a bureaucracy nor the professional networks where they might find such expertise. Populists must incorporate parts of the establishment into their government just to make it function. The clash of priorities and interests within this populist-elitist coalition would be difficult to harmonize for any chief executive. If the person in charge is ill-tempered, thrives on conflict, and easily persuaded, problems are made worse.

Please go to The Washington Free Beacon to continue reading.
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This is what you call a pirate City of London strategy to whip Americans back to the far right. Oh Ron, you're such a terrible guy.


This is going to work out real well: a Twitter debated presidential campaign and election. Maybe Musk can step in to help with the show? It has already been asked:


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