Never Ron Republicans? Trump camp linking Reagan and DeSantis could backfire

Ex-President Donald Trump Preemptive actions against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R–FL), and he compares his most formidable The conservative base distrusts 2024 as the primary enemy of Republican leaders

DeSantis was linked to the establishment’s beleaguered figures including the former House Speaker Paul RyanIt is the Bush familyPlease see the following: Karl Rove.

Conservative true believers may find it difficult to accept attacks on just one Republican leader before Trump’s election. Ronald Reagan.

REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE HOUSE. NOW WHAT THEY CAN DO?

Republican operatives, and conservative activists said the Washington Examiner It would be foolish for Trump’s campaign to continue the Reagan-DeSantis analogies.

“This is an endorsement, not an attack,” According to one Republican campaign expert.

A preview of Trump’s speech case against Florida Governor ahead of the expected GOP clash between the titans Axios quoted A “Trump confidant” DeSantis’s populist prowess can be attacked by his Reaganite record.

“There’s a pre-Trump Ron and there’s a post-Trump Ron,” Trump associate spoke of DeSantis. “He used to be a Reagan Republican. That’s where he comes from. He’s now awkwardly trying to square his views up with the populist nationalist feeling of that party.”

Trump is arguing DeSantis, an established Trojan horse who imitates the ex-president’s combative personality and rhetoric while garnering the support from anti-Trump elements within the GOP, is a Trojan horse. DeSantis can be allowed into MAGA by Ryan and Rove. Jeb Bush You will be able to jump.

Many Republicans who are drawn to Trump want him to leave the old party. Reagan pursued free trade agreements. He also signed into law an immigrant amnesty. In addition to demonstrating the GOP’s support for free markets, Reagan signed into law an immigration amnesty.

First things magazine published A letter from conservative intellectuals was published in 2019. “Against the Dead Consensus.” Decried by the signatories “fetishizing of autonomy” This excessively libertarian form of conservatism is believed to be advancing their cause.

“There is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016,” They also wrote. “Any attempt to revive the failed conservative consensus that preceded Trump would be misguided and harmful to the right.”

Trump uses a variation of this argument to make himself distinct from DeSantis or the rest of the probable Republican field. The conservative consensus here, which is being denigrated by Trump, is in fact a Reaganite. First things treatise concluding, “We respectfully decline to join with those who would resurrect warmed-over Reaganism and foreclose honest debate.”

Trump travel companions are known for referring to others as “”zombie Reaganism