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ProfessorGAC

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25. In Addition...

Sat Nov 19, 2022, 07:56 AM

Nov 2022

...cults of personality aren't easily transferable.
The followers are still out there but aren't likely to be as passionate or motivated when the starting personality is gone.
DeSantis doesn't strike me as having the appeal to the drones that TFG has. He's more a technocrats than an emotion triggering "leader".
The Rs put too many eggs in one basket (much like TFG did with his finances, otherwise he'd be an actual billionaire). Getting beyond that seems harder than they've estimated.

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