The Ron DeSantis Slump
The Florida governor once looked likely to defeat Donald Trump. Where did his campaign go wrong?
www.newyorker.com
The only logical explanation is MAGA is a full blown cult of personality.
Excerpt:
"Even attaching Trump’s name to an otherwise effective message had a tendency to invert the results, this source said. If a moderator said that the covid lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, seventy per cent of the Republicans surveyed would agree. But, if the moderator said that Trump’s covid lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, the source said, seventy per cent would disagree."