“He was treating them like peasants”: DeSantis hits back at Gavin Newsom HotAir

I repeat what I said a week ago. DeSantis vs. Newsom is the only plausible 2024 match-up that wouldn t be soul-crushing on one or both sides. It would be high-energy, enjoyably nasty, and a true battle of ideologues after two cycles of mushy Democratic nominees. Populist post-Trump conservatism versus balls-out progressivism, the culture war to end all culture wars.

DeSantis would win. If you believe the country is on the wrong track, as practically everyone does, and yearn for a return to optimism, a match-up between a governor whose state is famously growing in population and a governor whose state is famously losing it is not a good match-up for the left. That s their political problem in a nutshell, in fact, an unshakable sense of decline. Their leaders are freakishly old and key parts of the coalition that was supposed to secure them a permanent majority are peeling off.

Imagine a de facto national referendum on whether you d like America to be more like Florida or more like California. Republicans might win the popular vote for the first time in 20 years.

via hotair.com

Nice thought; will never happen.