DeSantis is like Trump, but he actually does stuff

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump are two similar characters with one critically important distinction: DeSantis is a capable statesman, while the former president is not.

Trump galvanized working-class people like no other Republican in recent memory. His call for the forgotten men and women to be forgotten no longer resonated deeply with the disaffected and dejected in our nation’s heartland. Populist sentiments that had long been brewing, largely ignored by the political class, were finally given an outlet through Trump.