What comes next in the management of Ron DeSantis is predictable. I know these guys. This is what I call the Alex Castellanos shift [use site search].
After failure to launch on the original strategy, team DeSantis organized a crisis intervention last Sunday. What comes next is entirely predictable. The people managing Ron DeSantis will now shift to the Alex Castellanos approach. Christine Pushaw and her bitter hate approach will be distanced, and she’s told to get quiet. The tone of the influencers will be told to soften immediately and follow the candidate.
Here comes the BIG HUG!
The managers will likely use the pre-planned CNN interview with Jake Tapper as the launch vehicle to shift Ron DeSantis into the mode where he praises Donald Trump (the hug). You might even hear phrases like “without him, I wouldn’t be governor,” and “look, what they did to President Trump is unfair and unwarranted.”
The shift will be strategic and intended to portray a softer, more deliberate and professionally demure Ron DeSantis sympathetically. Neutering the confliction between himself and the campaign target, Donald Trump. DeSantis will be trained to speak warmly, perhaps even effusively about President Trump, while reinforcing his agreement and opposition to the unfair DC attacks against the former President and frontrunner.
DeSantis will affirm the wrongful nature of the current DOJ targeting. Then, after affirming the wrongful nature of the Deep State effort to attack Trump, DeSantis will then tack to a position of saying ‘but here’s the deal.’ ‘While Trump was unfairly attacked by all of the DC mechanisms that are corrupt and wrong, and there were dozens of examples of that hatred we could rightly discuss, I’m the guy who can hold them accountable and target the enemies who attacked him.’
In this approach Ron DeSantis positions himself as the professional, strategic ‘white knight‘, who will combat the deep state machinery and deliver retribution because he is not emotionally attached to it. He’s the deep strategist who will defeat the Deep State with smarter maneuvers, less words, a sharper approach and better qualified people.
Factually, if he ever wanted a chance, this is how the DeSantis campaign should have started. However, their authentic campaign approach – the approach they believe in – didn’t work. Now the Brutus approach as outlined by Alex Castellanos comes out, “snuggle up real close and wait to shiv him in the ribs.”
Watch, you’ll see it.
An approach that gently shifts away from antagonism and combat into an approach that contains praise, even effusive praise, as a strategic move.
It won’t be subtle, it will be obvious to those looking for it, but it will be different. The problem they have is the same problem with the original launch, the shift is fake, inauthentic and transparently purposeful.
Watch and you will see the Big Hug play roll out….
Alex Castellanos should have been put on some kind of watch list when he said that – a deeply disturbing statement!
This is not just about President Trump vs DeSantis and the Republican primary.
This is about Covid and the Coup.
Corrupt DC versus America
The sheep have seen the wolves and that cannot be undone.
I like to know how the bought and paid for stooge can transform into a “white knight” who will battle the dark forces who Bought him.
Once bought and paid for always owened.
I thought that Ted Cruz was a despicable political hack.
This meatball is every bit as disgusting as Cruz without the intellect.
We all know what Trump did to Ted at the convention, the destruction was something to see.
Look out Mr. Meatball Trumps is going to drown you in some political sauce.
At least it was a challenge to figure it where old Ted was coming from.
It will be fun to see how the puppet masters dress their dummy for the next act of their show.
Those Ivy League colleges sure can produce some real lowlifes .
Lol, dress their dummy! I Love it!!!!!
Barry Sotero.
Bathhouse Barry Soetoro.
Bathhouse Batboy Tony
“I went into the bathhouses to essentially see what was going on, and the epidemiologist in me went, oh my goodness, this is a perfect setup for an explosion of a sexually transmitted disease.”
— Anthony Fauci
It’s the Jungian thing.
Duality of man jive.
Jung at heart.
we all see you Ronny! No more peek a boo! Lol. SD, this is so great. Thanks. The most knowledgeable people on the plant are those who reside right here in this tree. God bless all of you with his mighty,hand. Truth will out. Praise Jesus.
Yup! Truth ALWAYS wins. Might take time, but Truth ALWAYS wins!
Your analysis is brilliant and it will buy Jill Casey Black & her husband more time. RD just lied to our faces (again) when he said he doesn’t insult people/his competition. Someone please insert footage from RDs smug press conference about Trump’s indictment.
They are not nice people as evidenced by former staffers & the 1st 2 men who helped RD break into FL politics:
“he has a habit of rewriting history, there’s Richard Petty, there’s Tom Petty, and then there’s Ron DeSantis petty. “In a blistering 2021 piece, Politico reported on the existence of a so-called “support group” of “scarred” former DeSantis aides who meet to exchange stories on what they described as a nightmare boss that treated anyone not in his innermost circle “like a disposable piece of garbage.”
I love this quote:
“he has a habit of rewriting history, there’s Richard Petty, there’s Tom Petty, and then there’s Ron DeSantis petty.”
Hard to believe the elite donors haven’t given Ronny the shiv he deserves.
The elite donors chose RDS because his character is the kind they need to get their agendas through. RDS is a back stabbing opportunist. Their kind of guy!
Not yet; they still need him a little while longer yet.
“…. But keep in mind, it’s all an act!”
Everyone in America is acting EXCEPT Trump.
Just as American patriots, by virtue of watching TV longer and harder, have managed to kid themselves into thinking their couch sores are evidence of a patriotic act.
As SD say, ‘just watch’.
Uniparty Hugs Great Again
“The one thing they did agree on, was the troop buildup in Afghanistan.”
In the words of Gil Scott Heron, ‘the revolution will not be televised’.
You want proof? Keep watching!!
Yeah, that’s the same Bidan…..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahahahaha!
Hundreds?
yeah, no one will buy it. at best, it will salvage some ties to the maga base for a future run
*raises clenched fist*
They/Them 2028!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109565864944137583
In other words, deSantis is your run of the mill conniving do anything, say anything to get elected sleazeball politician.
Trump back in the White House.
Yah, I think you nailed it this time…
Too late. DeSantis had his chance to make a good impression and he failed. You don’t get a second.
Money makes the world go round.
Good impression? The second he decided to run against Pres Trump, instead of supporting him, no good impression was possible.
A playwright once said, “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
It was certainly a strategically misguided move, no matter what one may think of the ethics. And he’s paying the price for that now. Pride (or in this case hubris) goeth before a fall.
“31. By what steps the passion for governing increased among the Romans
For at what stage would that passion rest when once it has lodged in a proud spirit, until by a succession of advances it has reached even the throne? And to obtain such advances nothing avails but unscrupulous ambition. But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.” – “The City of God” Saint Augustine
Ouch!
On target.
Thank you.
Is that the equivalent of Hillary’s 2nd or 3rd ‘Charm Offense’, with Ron DeSantis smiling/laughing more to show his warm and fuzzy side?
I did not realize that Hilary employed a charm offensive and must have stopped paying attention at “Basket of Deplorables”.
Just yesterday I read an article of DeSantis’s campaign saying to effect that since DeSantis does not call opponents names, that Trump should stop calling him meatball.
That sounds like something Jeb Bush might have told Meatball to say.
I’ll go along with meatball but I actually prefer Ron(!)-please clap- DeSoros. It truly captures the essence of this man.
We know that if they just let Trump have his 4 years, he cannot by law return.
Exactly! That’s the way t o get rid of him!
My guess is that they could not allow 8 years of America Being Great Again. That accomplishment would allow us to easily see the difference between PDJT and the Grifter/Anti-USA Class.
They NEED to have us in constant economic decline, endless wars/military action around the globe, social strife, decaying cities, and broken families. THEY have to create problems so that we turn to them to FIX them which they never do.
PDJT pulled back the curtain on these lying demons. Four more years would have solidified MAGA.
I think DeSantis would have greater sucess trying to get a call girl to pay him.
For what? Talking her to sleep?
Aneurin Bevan once stated that “Politic is a blood sport.”. Alex Castellanos agrees (figuratively). As for Ron DeSantis, Proverbs 12:22 ” The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.”. Ron DeSantis should do some serious soul searching if he is a man who seeks God`s Wisdom on important matters. From long-time observation, most politicians are as far away from God, as the East is from the West, which explains the mess that the World has been in for centuries.
Unless the Cruzbots are run out of the DeSantis campaign, I see the ‘Big Hug’ pivot problematic. The bitterness of Cruzbots can only be overcome by banishing them – they’ll never be happy.
Let’s see: The DeSantis campaign runs off the Cruzbots, brings in a whole new group of workers, and DeSantis is still the fake, lying, backstabbing, bought-and-paid-for candidate that supports big corporations rather than people.
NOPE, I don’t believe changing out the Cruzbots for non-Cruzbots is going to fix the problem here!
Pretty much, but the marketing team may be better at duping voters.
Should this be the case, that DeSantis embraces Trumpism, DeSantis comes off as Trump-lite.
His biggest headline, “Don’t say gay”, was a cream-puff issue. With a friendly Legislature on his side, he prevailed. Whoop-ti-do… Not quite the crucible he believes it was.
Yeah, he’s a fighter. Great! We need a brawler. Trump is that guy.
President Trump can see the shiv as we all can.
Ron 2.0 will suck even worse than 1.0.
Pushaw has been silenced.
Ciao!
I’m sure PDJT will bash him more, especially with the AI video out. All of these people are losers, never been good at anything but crime
They really do think we are stupid, don’t they? Trump or bust.
They know we’re not stupid. Instead they believe us to be powerless. It’s a big difference. That’s how I see it.
We are powerless! Look how we were powerless to fight the cheat!
“In endeavors to improve our situation, we should never despair.”
–Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 1817
Exploiting the phony horse-race, reveals the landslide and election interference, sooner and later. ymmv
https://rumble.com/v3008gi-american-patriots-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-respond-to-bill-.html
Maybe your both right. If they believed you were powerless I don’t think they would need to spend so much time demoralizing, shaming, and canceling 75 million votes while holding up a kiddie sniffer. My opinion only.
In 2016 they ran no fewer than 16 candidates for the Republican nomination but they still could not shake Donald Trump. Now, they think one meatball will do the trick?
Nah. They must have something else up their sleeve- like WWIII for instance- just like they did in 2020 with the plandemic.
Meatball is just a place keeper.
Their real fear is we are not stupid nor endlessly patient.
Reference SD’s battered spouse analogy. The more afraid the batterer is that his victim will wake up and leave or fight back, the more he changes up his behavior from mean to nice. Sounds like the Big Hug strategy.
Methinks you are right.
Cue to Jack Nicholson in The Shining, begging his wife to please open the door, so he could bash her brains in.
DeSantis allowed deep stater Pelosi to put her Capitol Police in the Hillsborough County (Tampa) Sheriff’s department. Federal offices are not allowed within the state without the state governor’s approval. More J6 prisoners have been from Florida than any other state yet not a peep from DeSantis about their treatment.
DeSantis will never go against his DC/Globalist owners. Never.
Great revelation
Are you really cut out for the job needing all these handlers and trainers ? Did his last jobs not prepare him enough? If not I don’t want him
Rob DeZaster is a dork. There is nothing more to him. Bad clothes, bad facial expressions and bad advice from his equally sartorially challenged wife. Sad
This is the donor class showing exactly who they are. It’s all about money, just as Sundance has said so many times. The GOPe is all about power to make money. They hate Maga, they hate us! They have nothing but contempt for us. We are too stoopid to see what they are doing.
It’s already too late for DeSanctimonius to change course…he just doesn’t know it yet, but he’s finished. As Maximus says to his men in “Gladiator” before battle with the Huns, “If you suddenly find yourself walking in green fields, don’t worry about the fight because you’re in Elysium and already dead.”
Meanwhile, they sure seem to be kissing up to Mike Pence. Or perhaps Pence is chasing DeSanctimonious’s Sugar Daddys.
Come to think of it, Pence is acting more like DeSanct than DeSanct himself (Pence is not a nice guy).
Pence has definitely revealed his not-so-Christian side, which is aimed straight at Deplorables.
If They are changing tactics for Meatball, does Casey get a new wardrobe? Hairdo? T-shirt? Stilettos?? Do their kids show up to more events? Do They really expect us to buy this third (fourth?) remake of a patently unlikeable man? All Trump has to do is flash a new ball cap design & the crowd goes wild—Ron! can only wish.
Casey’s handlers are more interesting to watch than her husband’s. They obviously hope to appeal to the soccer mom crowd, which is *not* to say the country club RINO crowd. She already has THEM in her pocket. (actually she is in THEIR pocket, but I digress..)
Her handlers need to capture the real women, those who are intimidated by Melania. You know, the airheads that run around in duck pants and stilettos. Lol
de Sanctus is the Ronald MacDonald of the political sphere.
Respectfully disagree.
The only time this shill for the Trump-hating elites would ever remotely utter anything approaching ‘praise’ would be after DJT is no longer on the scene.
And, we all know how that would go over.
The part the establishment cannot overcome is their betrayal. That’s why those Senators are threatening to leave the GOP.
It’s not a threat,btw, they are telegraphing Government Party strategy: if Trump wins and the GOP gets Senate control, “just enough” of them will change parties so that Trump can be stopped.
There are now two camps as the eGOP tries to grapple with their inevitable destruction. The cozy-up camp and the no-way-in-hell camp.
The latter group reminds voters that the former group is acting.
B I N G O !
It’s Donald J Trump or we’re done. Everyone of these clowns is just for show to distract you from the 100mph fastball coming our way.
Still a con
Victim being played
It’s all illustrated in old westerns
It’s all happening in real life today with race baiters
It’s what we have become, a world of con artists. Yes, people will fall for it because people are like docile sheep. They want to believe everyone in the world is soft and cuddly. That is a falsehood.
Friends, Romans, countrymen and Multi-National Corporate Fascists, send me your checks;
I come to bury Caesar, and to praise him like my handlers said. I don’t understand it, but I do as I’m told.
So he’s going to do Vivek’s shtick.
Yes.
Vivek does it better and has at least been consistent in his use of it.
Meatball Ron! cannot defeat the Deep State because he is in bed with the DS.
He is not a “white knight”!
President Trump is and will remain our one and only “White Knight”!
Frankly, I’m surprised this wasn’t the strategy to begin with…a point noted in the article
Hopefully, PDJT won’t allow him too close…like he did the traitors in his first term
Problem is Trump feeds off compliments and pumping up his ego. That was his main downfall his first term. They get him thinking about how great he is, then they turn on him behind his back. Then they join the anti-Trumpers to try to bring him down after they realize he’s on to them. Same MO too many times.
Don’t be a byproduct of fake news. That was the nonsense the MSM was passing around. Think about it for just a minute…if Trump had as big of an ego as you say he does, why would he have subjected himself to years of abuse of the worst kinds of slander just to save your sorry hide?
I guarantee that your “ego” would have folded under the constant strain of abuse long before his has. Heck, I know mine would have.
All along there has been The Bush Family, the Supreme Pizza of Egomaniacal Excess –
WHO thinks they are so great that they need to run a THIRD family member as President, all within a very short period of time!
When I think of someone with an outsize-ego, I think of Jeb Bush, totally expecting to be THE candidate in 2016 – and I wanted to say, Por Que?
B.S.
Why vote for DeSantis when Trump has a proven track record of being the real deal?
DeSantis has already proven with this shift, to be unstable, ineffective and to many myse;f included to be a FAKE MAGA oerson.
And trotting out Mrs. “The Governor” didn’t work.
I saw a table loaded with camo pants in the women’s section at Syracuse Macy’s yesterday and it made me tee-hee. Told hubs to get me a pair for Christmas…NOT.
Very good analysis and comments – on target – Reminds me of TeD 2016, near the end when Ted was last one left on Sundance’s funny bingo card ,he tried to fly/survive in Candidate Donald Trump’s slip stream .. and then the convention antics — I think Ron and Crew bet all their first stack of chips on the ML raid /Indictments etc to take PDJT out and didn’t anticipate the “Trump Effect” – he manages to own the Downside as they say ..
Obvious desperation adjustment by Ron , MAGA voters will hopefully say thanks , you learned your lesson , Junior , now go back to Florida -no votes for you …
An act of desperation!
Matthew 5: 10-13
A happy day!
I think most people will see this ruse for what it is…a ruse.
There’s no way people are going to accept Meatball’s “humbling stance” now after he was silent for a year and, when he did make comments about President Trump, they were nasty.
That is ssssssssssssssssssooooooooo hilarious.
All those DeSantis trolls and never Trumpers are going to be thoroughly disgusted. They have been bashing Trump endlessly and now they are supposed to embrace him?
I actually think this could possibly backfire and lose DeSantis some never-Trump voters.
Was thinking the same thing
I agree that this should have been Disantis plan from the beginning. That approach would have produced a situation where he would have a good chance of being selected as Trump’s VP. Now he should have zero chance as the VP selection as he has already exposed himself as just another Judas Pence Uni-Party plant Vice President.
De Santis is hoping Trump will endorse him for President!
Uhh – more likely endorse him for veep – which should have been his play from the beginning (see: Vivek), had he more brains and less hubris.
After what the GOPe did and are still doing to the J6’ers, now they wanna say, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Ask God for forgiveness because I have none left to give.