DeSantisites

DeSantisites are people who pretend that Ron DeSantis is a sincere conservative and then demand that everyone else support DeSantis for President, and who sometimes use leftist tactics to coerce others.

DeSantisites include in their ranks people who are not conservatives, such as establishment types who manipulate DeSantis in order to try to stop Donald Trump. However they also include in their ranks people who very much are conservatives, including former Trump supporters who have become disillusioned with him because of either his age (in 2024, Trump will be the same age Joe Biden was in 2020) or because they fear he will be prohibited from hiring his own choices for appointments by the intelligence community withholding security clearances as they did during his first term and thus govern less effectively than what he is capable of. However, regardless of political affiliation they have one thing in common: they are looking for some sort of political messiah, and will deliberately ignore any red flags associated with their preferred "messiah" candidate while also refusing to engage in any sort of constructive debate on the merits.

Some DeSantisites may in fact be paid actors.[1] Some are also willing to troll, harass, defame, cancel, and even doxx Trump supporters for simply disagreeing with them.[2][3][4]

List of things about DeSantis that DeSantisites tend to ignore

Desantis staffer Christian Pushaw kissing Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky.

• In the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago raid, DeSantis remained near-silent for several days, and when he finally made public comments on the raid he actively avoided mentioning Trump by name. In the same period, he fired his entire brand image consulting team and his entire communications team, presumably in order to distance himself from Trump.[5][6][7]
• While running for re-election as Governor of Florida, DeSantis raised over $200 million for his re-election campaign, with 94% of that money coming from billionaires and corporations. He also published campaign ads outside of Florida. Neither of these moves would make sense unless he were actively seeking an even higher office at the same time he was running for Governor.[8]
• During the 2022 midterms, DeSantis canceled a scheduled appearance at a Lee Zeldin fundraiser. While Zeldin has his own issues, none of them were the reason for the cancellation. The reason invoked by DeSantis was that he had to attend the funeral of a cop, although a much more likely reason is that he had recently spoken with a New York real estate donor who happened to support Kathy Hochul.[9]
• DeSantis is endorsed by the Club for Growth, Paul Ryan,[10] and was extolled as a "formidable candidate" by Jeb Bush.
• DeSantis supported and voted for the globalist TPP while in Congress.[11]
• DeSantis supports funding the War in Ukraine.[12]
• DeSantis has confiscated more guns than any other governor in the country thanks to his strict enforcement of Florida's red flag law.
• DeSantis has remained silent over the treatment of January 6 prisoners.[13] [14]
• During a debate with Charlie Crist, DeSantis refused to commit to serving a full term if reelected.
• DeSantis received the vast majority of the Republican Governor's Association (RGA) donation funds despite being in a safe race during the 2022 midterms. Meanwhile, candidates in much closer races, such as Doug Mastriano and potential DeSantis rival Kari Lake, were given little to no funds despite the promises of the RGA's co-chairs, RINOs Doug Ducey and Pete Ricketts.[15][16][17][18]
• DeSantis may have been involved in the coverup of the death of Kent Stermon.[19][20][21][22]
• Among DeSantis' staff include foreign agent and Russophobe Christina Pushaw, and impeachment supporter Jeremy Redfern.[23][24][25]
• DeSantis speechwriter Nate Hochman created a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol used by the Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ukrainian Azov Battalion.
• DeSantis, as stated above, has been relying on vicious internet trolls (who may in fact be paid trolls) to promote his potential candidacy.
• DeSantis has refused to label Antifa as a terrorist organization.[26]
• DeSantis has ties to and publicly praised Libby Locke, an attorney who is currently representing Dominion Voting Systems against Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell.[27] Locke has also represented Project Veritas in the past [28]; a short time after she participated in a public round table event with DeSantis, James O'Keefe was ousted from the organization he founded by a pro-DeSantis faction of its Board of Directors [29].
• DeSantis and his allies are willing to endorse and even use lawfare tactics against Trump and/or his supporters.[30][31][32]
• DeSantis' campaign is willing to use AI-generated photos as "evidence" against Trump in its campaign ads against him.[33]
• DeSantis transferred $82.5 million in campaign funds raised during his re-election bid to a superpac supporting his presidential bid.[34]

See also

• Opposition to Donald Trump
• Cruzites