Posted on 04/22/2023 10:23:40 AM PDT by TBP
Perhaps the most moderate candidate in the field as of this moment is Donald Trump.
If you want a Republican who won’t cut spending or start foreign wars, Trump is still your man.
Added to this now is clearly a discomfort with the fight over abortion in the post-Roe environment.
Trump’s main line of attack against Ron DeSantis is from the left.
He’s hitting the Florida governor hard for his past support for reining in Social Security and Medicare.
He’s also called the governor’s culture-war clash with Disney “so unnecessary” and “a political stunt,” while not entering the fray in the conservative war with Bud Light.
Of course, Trump’s personal power is such that he’s made loyalty to himself the standard for being considered right-wing — orthodox conservatives who reject Trump are more apt to be labeled moderates than Trump himself.
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Be that as it may, barring something extraordinary, Trump will be the nominee. The problem now is to figure out how to use that to promote the America First agenda, and to preserve some shreds of a constitutional republic.
If MAGA fails in that effort, the next step gets very loud.
But it doesn’t bother you that Trump endorsed Ryan more than once, endorsed McCain, Romney, Linda Graham, Turtle, and a bunch of other RINOs and whipped votes for Ronna while DeSantis endorsed Harmeet.
In your world, that proves that DeSantis and Dhillon are RINOs. Like Kathy Barnette was A RINO, but Oz wasn’t.
Sure, Massie, Mike Lee, and Roy (among others) are Paul Ryan RINOs.
(But Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee aren’t.)
No. You're the one who started with the Trump once "endorsed Ryan" nonsense. I simply responded with DeSantis' associations with Ryan that are current and worse.
Pretty simple.
Go back and follow the conversation.
It’s not “nonsense.” It’s fact. Sorry to disappoint you. And Ryan is one of many RINOs Trump has actively supported.
DeSantis does NOT have a current association with Ryan.
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