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What Is to Be Done? Restore Federalism
and Elect DeSantis as President

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Posted By: markantony, 7/20/2021 10:36:38 AM

One of the things the Left hates most about the United States of America is that there are 50 of them. A leftist revolution is more easily accomplished in a country in which power is already consolidated in a single place among a small group of people. Despite the vast territory of the Russian empire under the last of the Tsars, Lenin was able to hijack the initial anti-Tsarist revolt and turn it into a Bolshevik seizure of power. [snip] And here we are now: less a federal republic than an imperial capital sucking the life and tax dollars out of 50 non-sovereign satellites

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You want to win in 2024? Trump for VP.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Kate318 7/20/2021 10:45:03 AM (No. 851302)
While I would vote for Ron DeSantis in a heartbeat*, if President Trump wants to run again, he should be the headliner. That’s for many, many reasons, not the least of which is that the 2020 election was stolen from him. *Only if vote fraud is addressed and dealt with.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 7/20/2021 11:02:33 AM (No. 851318)
There is one problem. The Presidential candidate is still the head of the ticket. And such will draw all the vitriol and personal destruction focus of the Democrat machine. Only Trump is capable of repelling that. Go back to 2016. No Republican but Trump could have withstood the triple onslaught of the Clinton machine, the Media and the Deep State - Russia, Dossier, FISA etc. Nice idea but I still vote Trump/DeSantis.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bad-hair 7/20/2021 11:04:52 AM (No. 851319)
I tend to agree but I somehow can't see Trump as playing second fiddle. It's not in his nature. If it came down to dust in a disagreement with President DeSantis there would be hell to pay. Hillary ref intentional.. These people have egos like mountain ranges.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Hugh Akston 7/20/2021 11:12:27 AM (No. 851324)
2028
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Laotzu 7/20/2021 11:15:06 AM (No. 851326)
I'd be more interested in Ron Desantis for President if Ron Desantis, himself, were talking about restoring (the counter-intuitively named) federalism. As I saw it, PDT was taking more action in that regard than any president in living memory. So, no, I'm not giving up on a known constitutionalist for a politician who could barely beat a candidate who was found, months later, with a dead male prostitute in a motel three-way, drug orgy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: spacer 7/20/2021 11:51:12 AM (No. 851356)
Can we please give this a rest. If President Trump says he is in I'm in ALL in. Love the Gov. and his time will come.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: ivehadit 7/20/2021 11:59:16 AM (No. 851363)
My two questions for ANY candidate: 1) Who funded your campaign 2) Who fears you?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: BillW. 7/20/2021 12:34:01 PM (No. 851400)
Trump? DeSantis? Whoever. But they gotta run on 1) Marxicrat 2020 Election Fraud and 2) Our southern border, wide open to UNTESTED, UNVAC'D illegals being flown all over the nation! Explain that in you can, Joe? Heels Up? Otherwise, SHUT UP! --MAGA
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Reply 9 - Posted by: fhancock 7/20/2021 1:00:36 PM (No. 851434)
President Trump won in 2016 and won in 2020...just because there was industrial level election fraud doesn't negate the fact that Trump won...so if the Trumpster wants to go at it again...I'm with him...if he doesn't then Desantis is a GREAT second choice
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 7/20/2021 1:02:30 PM (No. 851437)
Trump. DeSantis will get his turn.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: MDConservative 7/20/2021 1:54:10 PM (No. 851493)
This is all wonderful...who's going to pay for all this? Federal money is the lifes blood for states. Take simple things, like Public (Government) schools and the money received from the US Government supporting that local function. The Federal government is ubiquitous in civic and even personal life. National politics is big business. Ask any UNIPARTY adherent. Federalism is wonderful...and unobtainable except at a huge cost to many. Those with the gold make the rules...
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