Thread by @DouglasLukasik

Alright, a few days after DeSantis Rant #1, we are going to have to roll into #2. And this is his prospects as a Presidential candidate, and for whatever reason the bizarre obsession of many on Twitter that he somehow resembles Scott Walker. A take of unadulterated absurdity. ...

The take is, effectively, Scott Walker was not ready for prime time, and neither is Ron DeSantis. We hear it from two places. The first and most common is left Twitter. Let's be very clear about one thing, the left is terrified of Ron DeSantis. They never want to see him ...

on the top of a Presidential ticket. He is a worst nightmare type opponent, who will likely overperform other GOP options at the polls and govern with a single-minded focus of enacting effective conservative policy.

Notably, he's the second GOP candidate in recent memory of which the left is, from its response, clearly terrified about. The first was Marco Rubio, whose ability to convey a conservative message in a way that voters liked and whose background and heritage were the stuff ...

of nightmares for an identity-based party like Dems.

The second is the "MAGA only" right, who appear to think Trump has a birthright claim on the 2024 GOP nomination and cannot be challenged. Like the left, they see an opponent that Trump can't cower, can't rattle, can't shake.

So what do we hear? Oh, he's just another Scott Walker. Scott Freaking Walker. A guy who had a nice run of governance with a moment or two in the national sun from 2000-15 and who faded quickly under the heat of a Presidential campaign.

According to this line of attack, Scott Walker fired up conservatives on his public sector union reforms (he did), made a national name (somewhat), and didn't have what it took when he got to the big stage.

Fair enough on Scott Walker, but what in the holy hell does that have to do with Ron DeSantis? First, the calling card for DeSantis is undoubtedly Covid, something that has impacted virtually every person on the face of the Earth. Walker's moment was confined to a section

of public sector employees in Wisconsin, maybe 100-150K people. Ron DeSantis' calling card has impacted roughly 8,000,000,000. Yep, 8B with a capital B.

And unlike Walker, who followed that up with a relatively quiet 4-5 years, Ron DeSantis has quickly become the face of limiting lefty overreach in schools, hammering woke corporations, and not backing down in redistricting to Dems.

And that's before we get to what a true bulldozer to the media he is. Misrepresent the facts to him, he lights you up. Ask a loaded question, you get smoked. Dude is, on every level, a human full court press that never relents.

Scott Walker was a pleasant Wisconsinite who melted in the sun. Ron DeSantis is, to put it in Florida terms, a frigging hurricane. Get out of his path, because all of you, even yugely famous reality TV stars, are getting blown away.