WHOOP!'91 said:
Old McDonald said:
Gigem314 said:
The fact that a guy like DeSantis, who regularly calls out the media and woke agenda, is considered an 'establishment' pick shows how far the party has shifted. A DeSantis would have been considered a 'radical' in the party going against the Bush family, McCain, or Romney.
it's more that desantis recognizes that the "establishment" has a mercurial definition and is savvy enough to navigate around it. if you look at his resume it's basically your prototypical republican presidential hopeful: undergrad at yale (like the bushes), joined DKE (like the bushes), played baseball (like the bushes), grad school at harvard (like the bushes), joined the military (like the bushes), served as a us congressman (like bush senior), then governor of a large state (like bush jr.). no private sector experience outside of a year teaching before law school.
but, he punches back against the media and wokeness, so even if he's got the resume of a bush and isn't exactly a "drain the swamp" type he comes off as "not establishment".
I lost you. You pointed out how he was like the Bushes then said he comes off as not establishment? I definitely consider the Bushs "establishment".
what i mean is desantis has the pedigree and upbringing of an establishment republican. he's a career politician who was incubated in the same social, educational, and political system as the bushes. by those measures, seems like desantis is pretty establishment. but he avoids that perception with the occasional calculated potshot against biden, the msm, or wokeness.
is he going to drain the swamp as president? i highly doubt it. but i expect he'll continue throwing red meat to people who want him to on the way there.