It probably wouldn’t have been obvious if I didn’t get a chance to see them up close and personal. It’s what you learn when you meet people in real life rather than the images you get from the media. But when I did get to see Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey in real life, my impression from that experience was that she wanted to move into the White House more than he did. So it was no surprise that with flat-lined poll numbers, it was reported this past week that Casey DeSantis would take a more active role in managing her husband’s campaign. And what is ridiculous about that statement is that she thinks she can do something to help him resonate with the Trump voters to get them to jump to her husband’s campaign. All this happened after the Trump indictment in Florida, where the early indicators are that he is gaining even more support. Most people understand what the real fight is that we are fighting, where international crime syndicates that have essentially paid off the world governments really run the show, and nationalism, American nationalism, is their primary target. Ron DeSantis has been a good governor in Florida, but he’s certainly not good enough to fight off the bad guys in the world without Trump to protect him. And essentially, he owes any success has had to Trump for sucking up all the energy in the room to allow such a nice guy as DeSantis is, even to be governor of Florida in the first place. The DeSantis family was nice and would be nice people to have in the White House in a sane world. But we are not a rational world; we are at war, and some people have been slow to realize that, so they are supporting DeSantis for president rather than Trump. But that minority is not going to expand. There is no path for people to suddenly look at Ron DeSantis and say, “he’s my guy.” More people in consulting firms should know that, but obviously, they don’t.
So what’s wrong with Ron, the consultants who work the Beltway avenues, I’m sure, are wondering? It was obvious to me upon seeing Ron and his wife in person. I didn’t say much about it at the time. I know the people who brought DeSantis to West Chester, Ohio, were proud of getting a presidential candidate to Butler County, Ohio. At our local Lincoln Day Dinner every year, the Butler County Republican Party has done an excellent job of bringing very high-end people to speak at that dinner, and Ron was one of the latest. I appreciated the setting to get to know the people personally, so that kind of thing is very valuable. But for me, the only person that belongs in the race for the White House is President Trump. There is revenge for what was done to him and all his supporters in 2020 that could only be set right with another term, and that was the end of the story. For those not following things closely, there is a Halderman Report from Georgia confirming that votes can be altered through digital voting machines. Raffensperger hid it from the public, which is a conspiracy. Many people must be punished for that rigged election, and re-elected Trump to the office he should have had is the minimum payment that the public will accept.
At our event in Butler County, Ron and his wife did something odd; we were there to hear him speak, but she joined him on stage, and they did something like a roundtable where they talked about things they thought the public wanted to know. I thought Casey DeSantis was a very nice and beautiful woman. And she came across as resilient and smart. But she also reminded me of a Tupperware salesman who was still very young, not much older than my kids, and she and her husband had a lot to learn about how the world worked. And the more they talked, the more obvious it was that they were both still just kids and that they weren’t nearly ready for the kind of fight that is out there in the world. I watched Casey closely; she was very media savvy, largely because she had been an anchorwoman on television. She knew where the camera was and how to present herself to it, probably a little too well. That left it looking like she and her husband had found themselves ill-advised about their chances for the White House, and she was obviously more excited about it than her husband. That’s what was evident to me at that Butler County event. Afterward, people asked me if I was ready to support Ron for President, and I said no. But now, for a whole bunch of new reasons, it was clear to me that Casey DeSantis wanted to be in the White House, more than her husband, and now a few months later, that dream was slipping away, so she was taking a more active role in shaping her husband’s campaign as if a better media profile would help him.
All this talk about Ron DeSantis, I said from the beginning, was an unfortunate one. I have had bright thoughts about the future of Ron DeSantis, but I was concerned that he would destroy his brand for politics by running against Trump, the way other Republicans were damaged in 2016. They eventually became supportive of the MAGA agenda, but only as an act of appeasement. They never truly got onto the bandwagon but went into preservation mode to appease Trump rather than working consciously to fulfill the agenda of the American voters who put him in office. And the DeSantis family has been ill-advised to continue to run for the presidency, despite the facts. Ron is only winning over voters in the Republican Party who think that policy is the real issue, the Beltway insiders who like how things are and don’t want it to change. But a vast majority of Republican voters and the recruiting of new voters who are leaving the Democrat Party to vote Republican are voting for their nation’s sovereignty. They see what’s been happening, and Trump and only Trump is their guy. There is nothing that Ron DeSantis brings to the table that President Trump can do better. The best thing for Ron to have done for his political future would have been to support Trump like Kari Lake has. MAGA is the future of the Republican Party, and the sooner people realize that, rather than fighting it, the better off everyone will be. But I’m afraid for Casey’s sake that they exposed themselves too early, and now they will never live down this embarrassment of a campaign. It’s not that they are bad for the role, but that it’s the wrong fight at the wrong time. So many things need to be fixed before we can restore constitutional law to the sovereignty of American life. And talking nice with a media profile that the Beltway likes isn’t going to do it, not for Casey DeSantis or anybody.
Rich Hoffman
The Overmanwarrior 