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Beau dives into the rise of "Trump-lites" mimicking Trump's style in red states, the clash between Trump and DeSantis, and the potential ramifications for the Republican Party's future.
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Insights into the specific strategies that DeSantis or other "Trump-lites" might employ in response to Trump's criticisms.
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Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about the Trump-lites,
the copy versions of Trump,
and we will talk about how Trump and DeSantis
are finally going directly at each other,
because that has started.
Okay. In a recent video, I used the term Trump-lites,
got a bunch of questions asking what I meant.
I'm talking about Republican governors
in relatively red states, very safe states,
who are mimicking Trump's leadership style
and trying to out-Trump Trump,
being very inflammatory, using a lot of wild rhetoric,
trying to paint themselves as, I mean, almost intentionally,
paint themselves as an authoritarian,
making lots of power grabs that don't go along
with the traditional histories of the states,
stuff like that.
There is a lot of expectation that one of them
may become the Republican nominee,
and that may be true.
I'm not sure why,
but I tend to have a little bit of faith
in the American electorate.
I hope they see through it.
It's also worth noting that
that particular leadership style can be used in red states
because of the habit of just voting for the person
with the R after their name.
And when you're playing to just Republicans in the primaries,
you can try to out-Trump Trump,
and you look okay, you do all right.
Taking that to the national stage, I don't know.
I mean, it didn't work for Trump.
I don't know why they think it'll work for them.
That is what I mean by Trump-lite,
and there are quite a few governors doing this.
In totally unrelated news,
DeSantis and Trump are finally openly engaging each other.
Recently, Trump criticized DeSantis' handling
of the public health issue,
to which DeSantis was basically like,
yeah, well, I got reelected.
You didn't.
And then Trump has decided to break out the big guns.
He called DeSantis a rhino-globalist.
If you're not familiar with that term,
it's an anti-Semitic dog whistle.
It has roots in a lot of fringe theories,
conspiracy theories, a lot of baseless stuff.
But that term resonates with the MAGA base.
There's probably a reason why.
DeSantis is going to have to respond to that in a big way,
and I'm not sure how he's going to do it
without painting himself into the even further right,
fringe part of MAGA.
You know, as the Republican Party becomes more fractured,
you have the few normal conservatives left.
There aren't many.
You have those that are leaning into far-right authoritarianism.
You have the MAGA crowd that has already embraced it.
And then you have like the fringe of the MAGA crowd.
Any response from DeSantis,
it may actually push him into that fringe.
If he tries to hit back and continue to out-Trump Trump,
the alternative for him would be to disavow it
and call it out for what it is and basically say,
you know, this is this kind of dog whistle.
You shouldn't be doing that.
I don't know that DeSantis would do that.
That is probably what the majority of Americans would expect.
I don't know that DeSantis is going to try to play to that crowd.
The response from the governor of Florida,
it should be interesting to watch because we're going to get to see
how the Trump-lites plan on taking on Trump.
And with Trump becoming more erratic
because of all of the legal troubles,
the insults and the rhetoric that they're going to have to respond to
during any potential primary, it's probably going to get really wild.
But that is now underway.
So keep your eyes open for that.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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