MAGA Needs to Stop Piling on DeSantis and His Supporters
So, 55,000 Iowa voters, FOX, Newsmax , the donors and GOP establishment politicians and talk radio hosts have made the decision for us on who will be the candidate. The rest of us in the vast majority of GOP voters are irrelevant in the process. This primary process is unfair. Talk about a rigged system.
I can’t blame Trump for not engaging in the debates since no one in the Republican base, conservative media or party apparatus pressured him to do so. And they also have never held Trump’s feet to the fire and forced him to account for his Covid policy failures. He was never made to earn our votes, he’s been essentially coronated.
Trump made kind and gracious comments about Ron DeSantis and his family after Ron dropped out and honored his pledge to support the Republican nominee. Yet, the official Trump War Room social media account and others, with his tacit approval, continue to go on a rampage against those deemed “disloyal”, i.e., anyone who chose to back DeSantis over him.
Most of us won’t be won back by bullying, intimidation, threats of ending the careers of DeSantis and Republican officials who publicly backed him.
These clowns don't get it that they are not the ones with the power to dictate terms and make threats since they need our votes in November. So, I will not bend the knee and kiss the ring as some have literally said we should do for their acceptance. They need us, we don't need them. So yes, it is us, the losing side, not them that gets to dictate the terms of unifying.
They shouldn't assume that an RFK Jr. third party choice would only take votes away from Biden. RFK Jr. will draw many people on the right who are furious over covid and Fauci. The left doesn't like RFK Jr. for those reasons so he will not receive many disaffected Democrat voters.
We are not obligated loyalty to Trump. Our loyalty is to country and many of us have felt that Ron DeSantis was the best candidate to lead the country at this time. Most Republican voters disagreed. So be it. Although I would have liked to have had Republican voters in the entire country get a chance to weigh in.
If they are genuinely serious about uniting, they need to be gracious and stop bullying, making threats, demanding obedience and seeking retribution.