How Desantis got into this mess

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Desantis' campaign has been like a runaway train heading toward a collapsed bridge over a 500-ft chasm for weeks now.
6-weeks ago, while not in striking distance per se, he was the closest thing to catching Trump the Republicans had.
He had no trouble getting millions from deep pocketed Republican donors, as the uber wealthy flocked to give him whatever he wanted for his Quixotic try for the Republican nomination.
Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan and the other "content creators" of the New Reichstag Order propped Rob** (sic) up every chance they got.

Now, he is in damage mode almost everyday, and there seems to be no bottom to how far he can fall (the 500-foot chasm gets deeper all the time)
His roll-out on Twitter, while a bit of a mess, was more an omen, than truly damaging. The talking heads of the reich wing raced to his defense reminding everyone that it was Leon (sic) Musk, not Desantis that bore responsibility for the problems -- which was true. But it was Rob's decision.
It went so badly that Trump's campaign was able to make a commercial spot off of it. It showed a Space-X rocket launching, falling sideways and then crashing. He even used Jeb's 2016 logo in the bit.
This past week he looked like Sideshow Bob in Terror Lake standing on the street surrounded by rakes. Only these rakes had New Hampshire, Texas, California, New York, Newsom written on them. And he just kept stepping on them one after another after another.

How did he get here? What is Rob's (sic) problem?
Much of it is him. Unlike Jon Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner and other members of SNL's Not Ready for Prime Time players, Rob(sic) really isn't ready for the Prime Time (much the way another Florida Governor, Jeb wasn't).

I knew his campaign was 99% finished when he screamed at a reporter "Have you lost your mind?"
Rob (sic) is a rage-aholic. He is terribly thin-skinned and his authoritarianism, combined with his narcissism and his seemingly lack of real certainty in himself creates problems.
I said to friends, after his meltdown that he was done. Say what you want about Trumpolini (and I could write a book on every bad thing I can think of) he keeps a measure of control. If he doesn't like a reporter's question, he accuses them of being dishonest and unfair. Whiny, yes. But he's running for the Republican nomination and whiny appeals to the Christian right. He doesn't scream and yell and throw a tantrum, like he's two. He whines like he's three.
Followers of authoritarianism want a leader who appears in control, so they can feel safe. Lashing out like a crazy person doesn't do that.

Then there is Rob's(sic) laugh. Someone told him a joke and his laugh sounded so forced that it made many cringe. If he's going for the every man it works, provided that every man is the Unibomber, Ed Gein, or Art the Clown. Not sure how many people he frightened with that laugh, but my guess is many.

Then, there is his name. He has changed the pronunciation of his last name; is it pronounced duh, like in dumb, or dee, as in delirious?

His campaign has been tailor-made for Trump. Trump mocked woke, and it didn't negatively effect Trump among the anti-wokeritty. When duh...dee... santis responded to Trump's comment that no one seems to understand what woke is. Rob (sic) explained it, and it had no explanation to it at all. It was just a few scary words and phrases strung together that said nothing. And opened Rob (sic) up to more mockery.

** Then there is the "Rob". Trump took up to call desanctimonious "Rob", instead of Ron.
Why? I'm not totally sure except it's more bullying behavior on the part of our junior high mental aged former president.
I use Rob, because I find it funny. I think I find it funny because Rob, like that other Presidential wanna-be failure from Florida, little Marco is unable to counter.
Rob just sounds like Milhouse van Houten trying to be cool.

He's in this mess because he's pathetic. He's not very bright and he has no real talent. Trump at least can connect with some people. Rob connects with no one other than the press corpse desperate for a race in at least one party's nomination race. The only other people he seems to connect with are people who have never met him face-to-face. I mean, Americans living abroad came over to meet him, to vet him, so they could decide about him, and left underwhelmed.

He's not a threat to Trump because he's a lightweight who got lucky.
He's not a threat to Biden because he's just an endless stream of unforced errors that goes on longer than the yellow-brick road
Some people I know have reminded me about McCain. Yeah, McCain came back. He was a bit awkward in front of crowds. But, he was a likeable person with a compelling history who people believed, even when they disagreed with him, that he wanted good things for the country. Most people believe McCain would never do anything untoward just to get ahead.

Rob... he's just Rob. He only cares about himself. He slammed his daughter over her university degree to score points a few years back. Desantis is just that dislikeable. And he sees it as a positive

the only enjoyable things left are to see how many more falls Rob makes. How badly Trump beats him. And what the political fallout for Rob is.

If you made it to the end of this, I thank you for reading.
Have a good day