The great myth!
Conservatives have played this game for generations, "it's not us who have allowed uncontrolled deficit spending to create a debt bomb, it's the other guys".
Conservatives have claimed they stand on principal and nothing changes. Trump comes along and all of a sudden a border wall starts getting built. SCOTUS judges are nominated who end up putting an end to Roe v. Wade. China is actually confronted on trade policy and the loss of manufacturing is addressed. I think I will stick with the populists who put America First and not the conservatives who are controlled by the donor class, talk a big game and never get anything done.
I like DeSantis because he falls in line with the Populists. I think he would be a great POTUS. However, this time around it has got to be TRUMP. For me this decision is easy. I don't want to see the republic destroyed by the lawfare being perpetuated by the Rats and ignored by the conservatives.
HAHAHA! at what expense? Trillions upon tens of trillions... Because populists have no sense of future. And the destruction of liberties... Again, because populism can't see farther than their nose, and cannot see the implications and precedents that were set. This is the 'candy from the front of the parade' effect - Point to one or two successes and a host of temporary EOs, and entirely ignore the tremendous damage caused.
Lawfare? What exactly does it fix if he's elected? What can he do with that? NOTHING. You fight lawfare in the court. You win and countersue, and win a huge pile of money - THAT's what keeps them from trying it again. Winning the presidency does nothing at all.
And no... Your ire should be turned toward the moderates -The NEOCONS of the Republican moderate wing. They are the ones in power, and have held those levers of power almost all the way along.
The Conservative wing - The Goldwater/Reagan wing has moved the ball when they can. In fact the only times that Republicans acted like Republicans promised, The Conservatives were moving the ball (Reagan, the 94 Congress, The TEA Party), and driving almost every individual Conservative success.
DeSantis IS a Conservative, not a populist, and not aligned with populists' false promises in any way
It is the moderates who hold the power, and the flatulence of populists who have no vision longer than their nose that sucks the wind out of the Conservative movement. And that's how it's always been. Those are the things that STOP Conservatism.
Your idea of how thing are is just wrong. Stop listening to the rah-rah crowd and think.
