{"id":1018,"date":"2024-01-17T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/why-did-desantis-get-smoked\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:00:43","slug":"why-did-desantis-get-smoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/why-did-desantis-get-smoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did DeSantis Get &#8216;Smoked&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Plausible <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/16\/ron-desantis-failed-spectacularly-in-iowa-but-it-didnt-have-to-be-this-way\/\">explanation<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Like it or not, many Republicans have a unique bond with Trump, not just because they had to endure a lot of grief for supporting him in the past but also because they see how Democrats and the media have weaponized entire institutions against him in the most outrageous and dangerous ways. Even if these GOP voters are open to supporting other candidates this time around, the last thing they want is to be told that Trump is awful, which comes off as an indictment of&#0160;<em>them<\/em>&#0160;and&#0160;<em>their judgment<\/em>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It\u2019s odd that DeSantis was never able to figure that out, or that no one in his orbit was able to persuade him to take a different approach. Instead, as my colleague Emily Jashinsky&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/15\/why-trump-is-winning-by-double-digits-heading-into-iowa\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put it Monday<\/a>, DeSantis \u201callowed Beltway vest aficionados and their friends in the donor class to steer his career off course\u201d with endless attacks on Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Jashinsky&#39;s article is astute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plausible explanation: Like it or not, many Republicans have a unique bond with Trump, not just because they had to endure a lot of grief for supporting him in the past but also because they see how Democrats and the media have weaponized entire institutions against him in the most outrageous and dangerous ways. Even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/why-did-desantis-get-smoked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Did DeSantis Get &#8216;Smoked&#8217;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}