Looking at Dems reaction to another Trump term or DeSantis

 Rich Lowry:

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If Trump wins the presidency again, it will be mayhem. The reaction of the other side will make what happened after the 2016 election seem mild in comparison. You don’t ever want to give the opposition a veto, but how the opposition reacts affects how a president can govern. Democrats would certainly find a reason to deny the legitimacy of a President DeSantis, but his cabinet secretaries probably wouldn’t have to have bomb-sniffing dogs checking their cars every morning. That would matter, and it would be better than the alternative of the Left trying to convince itself, in a paroxysm of anti-Trump rage, that it needs to try to forge some sort of American color revolution.

Then there’s the question of age. Trump seems youthful and vital compared with President Biden. He’s still 76 years old, though. In the unlikely event that Biden runs again, a Trump–Biden race will be aged-on-aged violence that will be a great victory, one way or the other, for the American gerontocracy. A DeSantis–Biden race, on the other hand, would set up a simple future-vs.-past contest like Clinton vs. Dole in 1996 or Obama vs. McCain in 2008.
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It is the nature of the current Democrats to get hysterical about whomever the GOP nominee will be.  They will also attempt to criminalize a Republican President as they have tried to do in the past with Trump without ever saying what crime they think he committed other than winning an election.  I do think Trump was far superior to Biden as a president in both foreign policy and in terms of the economy.  I also think DeSantis would do a better job than Biden or other leading Democrats.

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