I’m not sure Ron DeSantis, an elite lawyer-politician, can do deals like Donald Trump. The art of the deal isn’t taught in law school, but learned through experience in the real world where one has skin in the game. Ron DeSantis has none of that kind of experience.
Donald Trump is a politician of a type never seen in my lifetime. Whether Ron DeSantis has anywhere near his talents remains to be seen.
Matt Hindman
1 year ago
Really Mr. Kotkin? Your suggestion for the Republicans is to go with another classic establishment neocon? Why do you think voters went with Trump in the first place? I guarantee you the party will immediately start losing the working class and minority support they have started to gather if they do such a thing. Have you met many American voters?
J Bryant
1 year ago
I hope Mr. Kotkin is right, and I agree it’s time both Trump and Biden stepped away from politics. Whether they will do so (or can be forced to do so) is another question.
There is, indeed, a huge swathe of “forgotten” people in America, but the so-called “elites” seem to control the levers of power and certainly the media (both social and traditional). I will be very interested to see how blatantly big tech tries to control/censor the narrative in the run up to the US mid-terms.
The sad reality also seems to be that “the forgotten”, that huge block of lower/middle class Americans, don’t seem to turn out in large numbers to vote anymore. Maybe they’ve lost faith in the political process. But if they want to neuter the elites they’ll have to go to the ballot box.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the mid-terms, but the pandemic taught us just how powerful the elite-driven establishment really is.
Brian Villanueva
1 year ago
The future of the GOP is a Wall Street banker turned Northeast governor who walked out of Bush Inc central casting? I’m pretty sure we’ve seen this show before. Ever heard of Mitt Romney? Anyone who writes an article about working class GOP champions without mentioning JD Vance or Ron DeSantis clearly isn’t interested in the actual working class.
If DeSantis runs he will have my vote. He is one of the few politicians who dares speak up about all the nonsense going on.
Wish we had a DeSantis in the UK. Alas, we are not blessed with any politicians with his courage and integrity.
I like the look of Kemi Badenoch. Seems to me to be cut from the same cloth as DeSantis.
I’m not sure Ron DeSantis, an elite lawyer-politician, can do deals like Donald Trump. The art of the deal isn’t taught in law school, but learned through experience in the real world where one has skin in the game. Ron DeSantis has none of that kind of experience.
Donald Trump is a politician of a type never seen in my lifetime. Whether Ron DeSantis has anywhere near his talents remains to be seen.
Really Mr. Kotkin? Your suggestion for the Republicans is to go with another classic establishment neocon? Why do you think voters went with Trump in the first place? I guarantee you the party will immediately start losing the working class and minority support they have started to gather if they do such a thing. Have you met many American voters?
I hope Mr. Kotkin is right, and I agree it’s time both Trump and Biden stepped away from politics. Whether they will do so (or can be forced to do so) is another question.
There is, indeed, a huge swathe of “forgotten” people in America, but the so-called “elites” seem to control the levers of power and certainly the media (both social and traditional). I will be very interested to see how blatantly big tech tries to control/censor the narrative in the run up to the US mid-terms.
The sad reality also seems to be that “the forgotten”, that huge block of lower/middle class Americans, don’t seem to turn out in large numbers to vote anymore. Maybe they’ve lost faith in the political process. But if they want to neuter the elites they’ll have to go to the ballot box.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the mid-terms, but the pandemic taught us just how powerful the elite-driven establishment really is.
The future of the GOP is a Wall Street banker turned Northeast governor who walked out of Bush Inc central casting? I’m pretty sure we’ve seen this show before. Ever heard of Mitt Romney?
Anyone who writes an article about working class GOP champions without mentioning JD Vance or Ron DeSantis clearly isn’t interested in the actual working class.