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DeSantis Is Going To Ignore Trump And Let Him "Punch Himself Out." [1]

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Date: 2022-11-20

Seems Ron DeSantis is going to do a “Rope a Dope” strategy when it comes to fighting Donald Trump right now. For those youngsters who have no idea about the “Rope a Dope” refers to, boxer Muhammad Ali used a strategy of lying his back on the ropes of the ring when he was fighting the powerful George Foreman. It required Ali to take the repeated blows from Foreman, but part of the force of the blows was distributed to the ropes. Eventually, Foreman wore himself out, and Ali started to pound on Foreman and won the fight.

Seems that DeSantis has decided to — ahem — “let Trump punch himself out, “ then a weakened Trump will be easy meat for DeSantis.

What could go wrong with that strategy?

Here is what DeSantis and his cronies are saying:

Ron DeSantis (R) plans to sit back and wait for Donald Trump to “punch himself out” in his race for the presidency, a source has told Politico. The Florida governor hasn’t declared that he’s running for the GOP presidential nomination, but it’s widely expected that he will. Trump apparently views DeSantis as a contender waiting in the wings and has increasingly attacked his one-time ally. DeSantis will reportedly bide his time and avoid tussles with Trump as he awaits a hoped-for implosion by the former president. Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he’s running yet again for the presidency is “fairly irrelevant” to DeSantis, a Republican consultant told Politico. One political donor said Trump’s announcement was always anticipated and was already “baked into the formula” for DeSantis’ future plans.

Emphasis is mine.

Wasn’t this the PLAN for all those congressional Republicans who thought Trump would be finished after the Jan 6th insurrection? No Republican would have to go out on a limb according to Moscow Mitch because “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of bitch for us.” Unfortunately to take Trump out, we needed some votes from the Republicans to convict Trump in the U.S. Senate during the second impeachment.

Republicans were not willing to help Trump “implode” then.

And although Trump has continued to experience growing legal jeopardy because of his criminal behavior, it looks like Republican judges and the now Republican House are doing all they can to make sure that Trump faces no accountability for his crimes. I’m not entirely sure if this will happen, but House Republicans are shouting how they will defund the DOJ and the FBI to stop them from persecuting poor old Donald Trump.

And despite Trump and the other Republicans not sweeping the 2022 Midterms, not all Republicans are on board with blaming Trump and running away from him. We have shadow Speaker of the House Majorie Taylor Greene giving Trump a big old bear hug. Her and the other crazies who love Trump will be helping to spread the chaos of Trumpism.

And it will be a shit show that damages all Republicans.

Additionally, I seem to recall 16 other goof balls running against Trump back in 2016, and Trump trashed them all. Granted, Trump had a lot of help in humiliating the other GOP candidates with delusions of grandeur. It helps if you get $2 billion in free advertising from the media, who were Trump’s co-conspirators in the final metamorphisis of the Republican Party into Trumpism.

But doesn’t the media LOVE Ron DeSantis? Sure. The media has annointed Ron DeSantis as the second coming. But the media has fallen in love with many failed presidential candidates. And reporters are always quick to abandon their “true love” if it helps with subscriptions or ratings. This is especially true when the high and mighty start fucking up and falling to earth.

We have to ask this question with regards to Ron DeSantis: “Has he ever had to fight hard against a nasty political street fighter? And I would say that is a “NO!” DeSantis is in a red state, and with all deference to Democratic candidates, it does appear that the Florida Democratic Party cannot get its shit together.

And I am not the only one who thinks that Ron DeSantis has a glass jaw. Stuart Stevens has been involved with lots of Republican campaigns, and he is convinced that Trump will pulverize DeSantis during any debate. And Stevens hates Trump. And I think that Trump will use all this time to define DeSantis to Republican voters. Remember this: if you can define your opponent, you usually end up winning any political race.

Ask how not fighting back helped Michael Dukakis in 1988.

But another problem with the “let Trump punch himself out” is that Trump is a known quantity for Republicans. MAGA lunatics either reject all of Trump’s bad behavior because the info is from “The Fake News!, or they do not give a shit that Trump is doing all he can to end democracy and continue grifting. We have had 7 years of Trump, how much else is there to know?

This is not the Katie Hobbs versus Kari Lake race in AZ. Everyone criticized Hobbs for not debating Lake, but Hobbs decided to let Lake have the stage and spotlight. And as every week went on, voters got to hear more and more extremist shit come out of Lake’s mouth. And in the end, Lake did herself in.

Trump has done everything that would have destroyed the careers of a dozen candidates, and the bastard is still in the mix.

Do not get me wrong. I would love to see these two bastards destroy one another politically. But if I have to wager money on who might come out on top, I’d say it will be Trump. But this so called strategy of DeSantis is not the way to defeat Trump.

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