I will agree Trump changed the game for the better, if for nothing else illuminating for many just how things are in DC.
But he didn’t put together a very good, cohesive team.
Based on what I’ve seen from DeSantis so far, he seems to have done pretty well. And I generally prefer Governors to run for POTUS (Romney notwithstanding, but then again he was governor of a deep blue state)
And even die hard Republican Never Trumpers, will find it difficult to oppose DeSantis. Hogan looks ridiculous opposing DeSantis.
As a young governor with young children, DeSantis takes the entire groomer schools issue personally - he understands what hell parents are going thru at the hands of their children’s teachers and is fighting the LBGTQ whatever movement with laws.
No one else is fighting against them with any substance, only shallow words.