DeSantis Refuses to Lose
Kurt Schlichter
Bowing to popular demand to expand upon my recent analysis of the DeSantis strategy, I note that all the smart insiders, like @MAGAKing69 and @TrumpMemeLord4976, have come to a conclusion – it's time for Governor Ron DeSantis to pull out of the race. It's all over, seven months before the actual voting, because the polls they like reinforce their (and the Bulwark sissies', and the Democrats') hope that Heavy D just can't touch the Trump. Maybe. It's possible that Donald Trump has this race won right now, and the governor is just too dense to see that there's no way things can possibly change in a race against a volatile guy with multiple indictments (frame jobs, BTW) here and coming over the next half a year. But Ron DeSantis is a Roman – Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, to be precise – and he's fighting his fight, not the fight the braying bots demand he fight.
That's where his Fabian Strategy comes in – and full credit to my pal, the great Michael Walsh, for identifying Proconsul Ronulus as harkening back to the old SPQR paradigm. Who was Fabius? He was the guy who refused to lose. That's how the Romans won – they just refused to get a clue and quit. Of course, DeSantis is not in the straits Rome found herself in after they got impatient and stopped listening to Fabius. He's locked in second place behind Trump but ahead of the clown car of wannabes, neverwillbes, and fat people who divide up what's left. He's poised to strike, and his plan requires not that he win right now but simply that he does not lose.
Now, let me take a page from history, which predates 1619, and set the stage. Hannibal hated the Romans from the First Punic War, and in the Second, he crossed the Alps to get at them on their home turf. The Romans thought they would thrash this African barbarian – they were aggressive dudes. They marched north and got promptly crushed at Trebia, then at Lake Trasimene, and then just brutally at Cannae. The common thread was that Rome saw its enemy and went right at him for a decisive fight. This was exactly what Hannibal wanted. He wanted fights on his terms, got them, and after three butt-kickings (read more in Walsh's great book 'Last Stands"), the cream of the Roman elite was in heaps, their legions were annihilated, and the road to Rome lay open.
more
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/06/29/desantis-refuses-to-lose-n2625026
