File this for future reference.
Sundance over at CTH has published an analysis of the DeSantis operation that is thought provoking. Essentially Sundance is saying that DeSantis’ run for President was planned out a long time ago. And it was the people who do not represent the American public, who kowtow to globalist masters, who need to be removed from our government, who were behind it. And it was planned to destroy the MAGA movement, to put the proles back in their place.
With the exception of a small group of political followers in the State of Florida, few people really understood what the DeSantis 2024 operation was all about.
Ron DeSantis ’24 actually began long before people were paying attention. It started when the top echelon of the GOPe UniParty saw candidate Donald Trump win the November 2016 election. In January 2017, when the DC stop Trump operation known as Trump-Russia took on a new direction, the Republican apparatus was just as much in opposition to the Trump presidency as the Democrat wing.
The Republican politician exodus from Congress in 2018 wasn’t accidental, nor was the weak effort of the GOPe to win congressional seats in that 2018 midterm election.
Given the elements of the ‘stop Trump’ effort, the House of Representatives 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 made the announcement because he knew the Republican leadership’s plan.
Ron DeSantis left Congress, along with Paul Ryan, because Ron 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 the proactive planning. The run for governor in ’18 was always done with the expectation and plan to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Here’s the key point. DeSantis was always going to run for the Republican Party nomination in 2024. There was never a consideration not to do so. He ran for governor in 2018 specifically to set up the run for the Republican nomination in 2024. That was always the plan.
If President Trump 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. DeSantis was always going to run in 2024; not running was not an option. Start from that baseline, and everything that took place during his tenure as Florida governor then starts to make a lot more 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 the exact reason why DeSantis ran in 2018 to mirror the Trump agenda. Winning Florida via overt and very public support for President Trump was always part of the design.
The policy agenda of Ron DeSantis was then structured to mirror the priority of the MAGA base. This was pure strategic and political maneuvering, not a fundamental or ideological alignment in common belief with the priorities of the Trump voter. Again, begin with the end in mind. The end goal was always DeSantis ’24.
What Florida voters saw unfold in 2021/2022 (social nods to create bonafides) 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 always the originating establishment old guard.
In other words, DeSantis was a plant. His role was to co-opt the MAGA movement and then when the time was right, the MAGA movement would eventually be neutralized. DeSantis would engage in activities that would make it seem like he was a younger version of PDJT.
And it worked. DeSantis won re-election by a wide margin as many people saw him as an independent, conservative voice. At the same time DeSantis said he would not run against PDJT if PDJT was running in 2024.
In December of 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 that exact purpose.
If ordinary voters, 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 over such a simple question was a “telling” indicator.
By the time the calendar took us to mid 2022, all of the visible datapoints went in one direction. All of the activity indicated DeSantis was going to run for the presidency in 2024, because, well, quite simply, Ron DeSantis was going to run for the presidency in 2024. It was always going to happen, and everything that was taking place was being done with that in mind.
All of the advanced scheduling was done with the 2024 campaign as the baseline. All of the legislative effort was constructed with the need for policy accomplishments to support the 2023 announcement. All of it, everything, from the moment Ron DeSantis stepped into office as the Florida governor, was predicated on his prior agreement with the professional Republican apparatus to run for the GOP nomination in 2024.
DeSantis was a vehicle for the professional Republican apparatus to weaken and neutralize the support for the one man who would threaten to cutoff their gravy train in DC. Of course, now that DeSantis has pulled out, that support will switch to Nikki Haley.
This is why the Republican Governors Association gave DeSantis $20,000,000.00 in 2022. The plan was always for DeSantis to transfer the funds to his 2024 campaign, and the RGA was seeding the money in 2022 because they could not do it after he made the announcement in 2023.
It was all being done 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 of the professionally Republican elements, including the DC leadership team, knew Ron DeSantis was going to run for the nomination in 2024. This is the same DC leadership team that supports the removal of MAGA, just like that same leadership 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, now the playbook was being duplicated.
The DC leadership team also knew the DOJ team was going to raid Mar-a-Lago. After all, the National Archives was 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/is a real 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 original 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.
DeSantis started out with such promise. However, when you overlay Sundance’s analysis, you can see the steps that were taken to fool the public. DeSantis was a cardboard cutout of a candidate being sold to real Americans. Fortunately for America, the real thing was running.