By far the most befuddling aspect of the whole thing to me is just how quickly everyone forgot just how poorly "his" candidates did in 2022. The polls post-election were not subtle for a couple weeks, i.e. that Trump was seen as electoral poison and that he needed to go away if Republicans had any chance in 2024. DeSantis had a HUGE lead…
By far the most befuddling aspect of the whole thing to me is just how quickly everyone forgot just how poorly "his" candidates did in 2022. The polls post-election were not subtle for a couple weeks, i.e. that Trump was seen as electoral poison and that he needed to go away if Republicans had any chance in 2024. DeSantis had a HUGE lead on him! Now here we are, a little over a year later, and he's going to absolutely steamroll his way to the nomination. It's this kind of incongruence that gives me headaches...
It’s obviously his cult of personality. The candidates he endorsed weren’t able to capture that and so they lost on their shitty politics. Trumps ability to be Trump sets him apart from pretty much everyone else that parrots the same style of politics
By far the most befuddling aspect of the whole thing to me is just how quickly everyone forgot just how poorly "his" candidates did in 2022. The polls post-election were not subtle for a couple weeks, i.e. that Trump was seen as electoral poison and that he needed to go away if Republicans had any chance in 2024. DeSantis had a HUGE lead on him! Now here we are, a little over a year later, and he's going to absolutely steamroll his way to the nomination. It's this kind of incongruence that gives me headaches...
It’s obviously his cult of personality. The candidates he endorsed weren’t able to capture that and so they lost on their shitty politics. Trumps ability to be Trump sets him apart from pretty much everyone else that parrots the same style of politics