I learned a lot about Ron DeSantis I didn't know before, and I think readers will, too. Let me share a few of the key themes in this piece: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
1. I think the DeSantis project needs to be understood as an attempt to restore the party's control over the nominating process after Trump broke it in 2016, a la "The Party Decides." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
2. DeSantis is consolidating all the changes to the party's base that occurred under Trump, including overtly wooing extremist factions and actors that were outside the party tent pre-Trump nymag.com/intelligencer/…
3. DeSantis has never accepted the results of the 2020 election as legitimate nymag.com/intelligencer/…
4. People assume he's just pandering to the right, but DeSantis laid out his philosophical disagreement with democracy in a book written over 10 years ago that nobody seems to have paid any attention to nymag.com/intelligencer/…
5. If you don't closely follow conservative media, the breadth and extent of pro-DeSantis propaganda might come as a shock to you. Almost every niche on the right is pitching DeSantis as their champion. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
6. DeSantis has also had some successful efforts to woo the center, most notably by keeping schools open 2020-21, and Democrats underestimate his skill at their peril. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
There's a lot more in the piece. I think DeSantis is a crucial figure to understand the future of the GOP and I try to decode it all. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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