{"id":1938684,"date":"2023-05-26T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-desantis-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:34:25","slug":"the-desantis-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-desantis-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis&#8217; Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">4<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-desantis-doctrine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Elon Musk Steals the Show at Ron DeSantis&#8217; Presidential Campaign Launch<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-peacekeepers-killed-in-central-african-republic-before-election\/\" title=\"U.N. peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic before election\">presidential candidacy<\/a> during a Twitter Spaces event Wednesday, but it was Elon Musk\u2019s show. The Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO received co-billing. Moderator David Sacks, an investor and former executive at PayPal, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-campaign-flips-twitter-space-crash-around-help-us-break-washington-next\/\" title=\"DeSantis campaign turns Twitter space crash into call to break Washington.\">technical snafu<\/a> that botched the conversation was a consequence of Musk\u2019s enormous Twitter audience. DeSantis thanked Musk for buying Twitter and turning it into a platform for free speech. Each of the guests lauded Musk\u2019s ingenuity and courage before asking DeSantis a question. One especially obsequious Republican congressman bragged that he owned a Tesla.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the Twitter Spaces event, Elon Musk stole the show from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who announced his presidential candidacy. The technical difficulties that occurred were attributed to Musk&#8217;s massive Twitter following. DeSantis thanked Musk for his contribution to free speech and the guests praised Musk&#8217;s innovation and bravery. One congressman even boasted about owning a Tesla.<\/p>\n<h3>Musk as the Candidate?<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Musk might as well have been the candidate\u2014and there is reason to think that, but for the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/explaining-the-natural-born-presidency-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constitution<\/a>, he would be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was suggested that Elon Musk could have been the candidate if not for the Constitution. This highlights Musk&#8217;s influence and popularity.<\/p>\n<h3>The Clash of the New Right<\/h3>\n<p>The clash between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is not just about who will lead the GOP, but also a struggle between two concepts of the New Right. Trump&#8217;s MAGA populism is pitted against DeSantis&#8217; institutional culture war.<\/p>\n<h3>The Populist&#8217;s Main Strength is Rhetorical<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s strength lies in his rhetoric, which is simple and easy to understand. DeSantis, on the other hand, is more esoteric and his conversation with Musk was not easy to follow. They discussed how government, tech platforms, and corporate media work together to suppress freedom and entrench progressivism. This highlights DeSantis&#8217; culture war against progressives.<\/p>\n<h3>The Post-2020 Right<\/h3>\n<p>The events of 2020 have radicalized a portion of the New Right and sped up its rejection of politics-as-usual and its embrace of state power. This is a Right that distrusts every word it hears from the left and believes official narratives are false. For this post-2020 Right, free speech is a way to rally against institutional arrangements dedicated to American decline.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DeSantis wants to use the institution he controls\u2014government\u2014to rescue or defang other institutions consumed by wokeness.<\/li>\n<li>He came across less as a populist than a shrewd technocrat.<\/li>\n<li>The key media figures in this post-2020 Right are not Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh, but Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DeSantis is betting that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-desantis-doctrine\/\" title=\"DeSantis' Doctrine\">institution-based culture war<\/a> will prove more attractive to GOP voters than MAGA populism. It&#8217;s a gamble that 2020 changed the Right as much as the Left\u2014and that Donald Trump belongs to a receding past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces, but Elon Musk stole the show. The CEO of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX was given equal billing. Moderator David Sacks blamed the technical glitch on Musk&#8217;s massive Twitter following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":1938685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4980,7437],"class_list":["post-1938684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-desantis","tag-doctrine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}