Final Thoughts on Duplicitous DeSantis: The One-Way Ticket Few Realized He Carried

By Sundance

DeSantis’ supporters often ask: ‘why didn’t he just wait until 2028’? Except for a small group of political followers in the State of Florida, few people understood the 2024 DeSantis operation. DeSantis 24’ began long before people were paying attention — when the top echelon of the GOPe UniParty saw candidate Trump win the November 2016 election.

In January 2017, when the stop Trump operation, known as Trump-Russia, took on a new direction, the republican apparatus was as much in opposition to Trump as the Democrat wing.

The republican exodus from congress in 2018 wasn’t accidental, nor was the weak effort by the GOPe to win seats in the 2018 midterm election. Given the elements of the ‘stop Trump’ effort, the House was part of the overall ‘stop Trump’ design. House Speaker Paul Ryan didn’t announce his retirement in ’18 ahead of the midterm accidentally — he knew the republican leadership plan.

DeSantis left congress along with Paul Ryan because DeSantis was going to run for the Florida Governor seat as part of his career move.  The people around DeSantis who supported his political career (Ryan, Bush, approved Republican types) along with the Club4Growth (David McIntosh) helped guide DeSantis with proactive planning.  Ron DeSantis run for governor in ’18 was always done with the plan to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

To reiterate — DeSantis was always going to run for the Republican Party nomination in 2024.  There was never another consideration.  He ran for governor in 2018 in order to run for the Republican nomination in 2024. 

For example; If President Trump had won the 2020 election, DeSantis was positioned to run in 2024.  If President Trump lost the 2020 election, DeSantis was positioned to run in 2024. When you start from this accurate baseline, everything that took place during DeSantis’s tenure as Governor of Florida begins to make sense.

The professionally republican DeSantis operation always contained the need to co-opt the MAGA Trump movement.  Just like the Tea Party was infiltrated and diminished back to the control of the GOPe in 2012, so too was the plan to infiltrate MAGA and take back control in 2024.  This is why DeSantis ran in 2018 mirroring the Trump agenda. Winning Florida via overt and public support for President Trump was always part of the Machiavellian design.

Ron DeSantis policy agenda was structured to mirror MAGA base priorities.  This was purely strategic and political maneuvering, and not a fundamental or ideological alignment in common belief with the priorities of the Trump voter.  Again, begin with the end in mind — DeSantis ’24.

What Florida voters saw unfold in 2021, and 2022 (social nods to create Bonafide’s) was precisely the DeSantis goal to create a MAGA image where the Florida Governor would be the torchbearer for the MAGA standard.  However, quietly behind DeSantis was the originating establishment old guard.

In December 2021, a full 17 months prior to the May 2023 official announcement, the invitation to the “conservative influencers” was dispatched.  Christina Pushaw was now part of the DeSantis ’24 operation, and she organized the January 6, 2022, meeting (pictured below) for this purpose.

This January 2022 preparation was why the people in the photograph were so sensitive about the “invitation” when questioned. If ordinary MAGA people, realized in early 2022 that Ron DeSantis was recruiting “influencers” for the campaign that was scheduled to begin a year later, it would be a risk.  The hidden agenda behind the operation would potentially be exposed.  The denials about this organization were extreme, and the ridicule received over such a simple question, was telling.

By the time the calendar took us to mid 2022, all the visible data points went in one direction.  All the activity indicated DeSantis was going to run for the presidency in 2024, because, well, Ron DeSantis was going to run for the presidency in 2024.

All the advanced scheduling was done with the 2024 campaign as the baseline.  All the legislative effort was constructed with the need for policy accomplishments to support the 2023 announcement.

From the moment Ron DeSantis stepped into office as the Florida governor, Everything he did was predicated on his agreement with the professional republican apparatus to run for the Republican nomination in 2024.

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) gave DeSantis $20,000,000.00 in 2022, so DeSantis could transfer the funds to his 2024 Presidential campaign, because they could not do it after he made his announcement in 2023.

It was all by design, following the originating plan.  No one would really question the $20 million, even though he didn’t need it, in a reelection year.  Also, the RGA could not be seen as putting a finger on the scale for the GOP nomination, so it needed to be done early by design.

All the professionally republican elements, including the DC leadership team, knew Ron DeSantis was going to run for the nomination in 2024.  The DC leadership team supports the removal of MAGA, just like they supported the elimination of the Tea Party, who were very effective at removing UniParty members through the primary process in 2010 and 2012.  Lessons were learned, and the playbook was being duplicated.

The DC leadership team also knew the DOJ was going to raid Mar-a-Lago.  After all, the National Archives were working in the background with the DOJ to formulate the justification for the raid. 

DC doesn’t keep secrets like this very well, and the politically connected knew what was going to happen in advance.  This is the explanation for why the team around Ron DeSantis scheduled his time in the bunker (5 days) to coincide with the ‘shock-and-awe’ raid.

The goal was to hunker down, watch the DOJ/FBI drop bombs on candidate Trump, then have Ron DeSantis emerge from the bunker in Mid-August 2022 with a national endorsement tour, soon to be followed by a soft national campaign kickoff under the guise of a “book tour”.

Hiding all of this advanced scheduling is why the DeSantis legislative team changed the state rules/laws for tracking the Florida Governor’s travel details.  They left nothing to chance.  The ruse needed to be maintained.  Sunlight, even in hindsight, was a threat.

When you start looking in hindsight with this specific retrospective in mind, then suddenly there is a great deal of clarity surrounding the hubris exhibited by everyone in the DeSantis camp, including Casey DeSantis. Ron left congress in 2018 to advance his career and position himself for the 2024 GOP nomination. 

You see, waiting and running in 2028 was never an option because running in 2024 was always the originating plan. It wasn’t only a grossly inflated sense of self-importance that drove the decision, although that has always been a character trait of Ron DeSantis, the 2024 race was the original plan supported by every member of the pro-DeSantis team.

Once you realize the reality of Ron and Casey’s one-way ticket, then you start to recognize how cunning and deceitful they are. It is not coincidental that cunning and deceptive are also the adjectives used to describe the DC republican establishment.

Many people were fooled by this establishment republican plan; but then again, many people were previously fooled by all the professional republican mask wearers…. So don’t feel bad if you were tricked by the duplicity. After all, it was not that long ago when Senator Jeff Sessions was the widely espoused “most conservative” member of the upper chamber.

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