>He’s right that DeSantis is far different from him. The governor is a serious, sober politician with a regular kind of appeal. He’s not flashy or bombastic, but he is solid. And that matters more than any sort of entertainment Trump can offer. We may or may not see a DeSantis 2028 campaign.
DeSantis's problem is that he actually is a generic politician, with success in Florida that's overhyped by ConInc media outlets. Part of why he looked so good is because many other Republican governors have been cucky as hell for years (e.g. Chris Sununu, Spencer Cox, Nikki Haley). To be fair, Trump looked so good as an R POTUS because of how bad W and HW Bush were in comparison but DeSantis's record in the federal government (i.e. his six years in the House) shows that if he were the the head of the executive branch, he likely wouldn't make real headway in non-standard-R MAGA planks such as taking on the Deep State, the Cheap Labor Express, and the Military Industrial Complex. Trump at the very least fired James Comey and cast a spotlight on Deep State shenanigans, had a MUCH better immigration situation than Obama and Chomo Joe, and didn't start new conflicts.
DeSantis employed shills justifying the Democrat tyrannical super dangerous weaponization of the DOJ, shills spouting the Uniparty narrative that there was no substantial mail-in fraud in 2020 and 2022 (thereby suggesting the regime weaponizing the DOJ as legit when it does not deserve to be seen as legit), cucked to donors on the Ukraine, and didn't actually take a stand on immigration when he was in Congress. Any analysis beyond the surface confirmed he was a Uniparty Trojan Horse, yet his campaign dared to employ the schizo strategy of being a hybrid of the Daily Wire neocon Ben Shapiro types, the Lincoln Project, and extremely online righties who are mad that Trump didn't go far enough.
Naturally, Daily Wire Shapiroites, the Lincoln Project, and the extremely online righties buttmad that Trump didn't nuke Israel, are three of the gayest factions of American politics in an era where Dems are literally buttfucking in the Capitol, so the fact that DeSantis 2024's campaign was a hybrid of all 3 of them made it crash and burn from the getgo.