Republicans Still Have a Future. Ron DeSantis Showed Them How.
Ron DeSantis shows Republicans a winning path through effective governance in Florida.
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The column says Republicans lost ground in this week's elections while Florida stayed Republican, with Byron Donalds winning the governorship by about 1.3 points and Ashley Moody holding her Senate seat by about 2.9. It credits Gov. Ron DeSantis for a Republican voter registration lead of roughly 1.54 million, a property-tax amendment that passed with 62 percent, and a new congressional map. It also says DeSantis has urged Republicans to address gas prices, AI and Big Tech, push immigration changes, and ban congressional stock trading.
This is a favorable opinion piece from a former DeSantis campaign aide, using praise like "Bar none, he is the model" and "true north star" while crediting him for Florida results and framing the wider GOP outcome as a "bloodbath" and "humiliation."
- Author's DeSantis campaign role appears only in the last line, after sustained praise such as "Bar none, he is the model."
- Attributes Florida's registration swing to DeSantis while conceding migration and party switching "contributed," without weighing their size.
- Loaded wording like "bloodbath" and "humiliation" frames the election results, with no opposing views or sourcing for claims.
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Republicans can learn from Florida without pretending a new map and a tax amendment solve everything, especially with gas prices squeezing people. Snowden showed us how much happens behind closed doors, and those black SUVs keep circling when anyone asks who really benefits.
3 AM and I'm reading this, and "Republicans can learn from Florida" is just wishful thinking. Ron DeSantis and his corporate buddies pushing property tax amendments while gas prices are through the roof and folks can barely afford to live? Sounds like the same old song and dance. And those "black SUVs" comment is spot on. Seems like the only people benefiting are the ones pulling strings behind the scenes, definitely not the working people I see struggling on my shift.
I taught long enough to know a close win is a reason to listen, not declare a model. DeSantis may have useful ideas on gas prices and stock trading, but voters will judge results, not a party's sales pitch. Both sides could stand to spend less time claiming a mandate and more time making life affordable.
The problem with treating Florida as a template is that it may be a story about incumbency and migration more than about a governing formula. DeSantis has had six years to build that registration edge, and the state has absorbed a lot of conservative-leaning newcomers in that time. Byron Donalds winning by 1.3 and Ashley Moody by 2.9 in a cycle where Republicans lost ground nationally is a modest result for a state with a 1.54 million registration advantage, not a landslide vindication. A property-tax amendment passing at 62 percent tells you voters like lower taxes, which is not exactly a novel insight into the American electorate. The one genuinely interesting item in the list is the congressional stock trading ban, because that is a populist position with real cross-partisan support, and if DeSantis is pushing Republicans toward it he is reading the anti-incumbent mood more clearly than his national party is.