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Donald Trump finally gets a second wind, tearing into Ron DeSantis like it's 2015 (video) [1]
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Date: 2023-03-14 17:23:05+00:00
This is an illustration of how Biff and his advisors are more skilled at populist pandering than DeSantis is. White supremacism and misogyny and anti-intellectualism only get one so far with an audience of Iowa Boomers. A successful right-wing demagogue also needs to assure these old white bigots that they’ll still be getting the money to which they (and they alone) are entitled from the government, whether in the form of Social Security and Medicare or subsidies for growing corn. For the same reason, going after the GOP establishment is also an area where DeSantis will have trouble competing with von Clownstick.
In order to succeed at fascism, one must make a convincing case that one is against the monied elites, even as one takes their donations and cuts their taxes and even if one is a member of that class. That’s why it takes a true grifter to get anywhere in that game.
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