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OP-ED: Choosing between Trump and DeSantis is a losing game

OP-ED: Choosing between Trump and DeSantis is a losing game

OP-ED: Choosing between Trump and DeSantis is a losing game

Two terrible teams are doing battle right now and I don’t care for either one.  Trump versus DeSantis.  Who do I root for?

If this was a boxing match and the Number 2 ranked fought the Number 3 ranked with the winner taking on the champion, then I would hope they beat the crap out of one another, thus weakening them for whenever they go up against the champ.

Still, I have no idea who to root for.  I mean everyone has a preference in life.  That is just human nature.

Since they both cannot lose and they both can’t win, I’ve got to root for someone. It is really getting complex because I can make a case for both.

Governor DeSantis has come across as  sort of petty, vindictive; a small guy with large white boots type of a guy with almost a Napoleon complex of sorts.

True, and kudos to him, he won re-election to the Florida governorship in a way never seen before here.

But if Mike Tyson, then Heavyweight Champion of the world,  took on the Golden Gloves champ from Brooklyn, I suspect the ending would have been quite similar, although you can never compare the Florida Democratic Party to a Golden Gloves Champion.

To be any type of champion you need to win at something.  Florida Democrats know not how to do that.  Get back in the gym and keep training, Dems.

It appears the governor is hell bent on pulling in all of Trump’s fanatics, while seemingly alienating moderates in his own party.

Yes, this could be to try to wrestle away the nomination from Trump at which time then he can then focus on a national audience.

But in the meantime, he is also shooing away any conservative Democrats (and they do exist) who feel DeSantis is dangerously too close to the far-right lunatic fringe.

He has stepped way over the line in his scapegoating of LGBTQ community, taking on Florida’s biggest employer, while taking away women’s rights, and giving more dangerous rights to gun owners via the extremely ludicrous permitless carry.

He is all over the place metaphorically and geographically, it appears. It will not sell nationwide.

There is a reason why Republicans have won but one popular vote in the last six presidential elections.

On the flip side, you have a twice impeached, once indicted (for now) megalomaniac who is the band conductor for a lunatic base who still thinks the earth is flat, Elvis works at Walmart, and Booth assisted Oswald in Dallas back in ’63….1963.

His base is still steeped in “Whataboutism.” What about Hillary?  What about Hunter Biden?

Yet they conveniently get amnesia when thinking back to a coup he orchestrated leading up to January 6, 2021.

“I suppose there are good people on both sides,”  Trump once said.

No there are not, you frigging lying charlatan!

The damage you did to this nation and its standing in the world during your time in office could not sustain another four years.

Grover Cleveland you are not.  He was well known for his honesty.  You, on the other hand, are not.

And still, I am left with this dilemma.  Who do I root for here? Trump or DeSantis?

Either way, I surely will go with President Biden or who ever the Democratic nominee turns out to be, though I will draw the line at Robert Kennedy, Jr., who seems to want to be 2024’s Ralph Nader.

I pray Dems are not stupid enough to waste their vote on him as they did for Nader in 2000, thus giving Bush Florida.

DeSantis has served his nation.  That sells big with the Republicans.  It sells big with me.

But conveniently, they give a pass to a guy who not only got out of serving his nation (through daddy’s money) but had the audacity to make claim that he prefers military personnel who were not taken prisoner of war.

How the hell did this jackass ever get the respect of the military is beyond me.

Basically, though,  it all comes down to this: sometime this week or next, a jury will render a judgment in the civil trial of Trump versus E. Jean Carroll.

If the jury comes down on the side of Ms. Carroll, basically stating they believe Trump did in fact sexually assault her, that would make him a sexual predator.

Finally, he will be held accountable for his many transgressions against women, though it will be civil, not criminal.

While his MAGA base will claim it is even more proof that he is being persecuted, I cannot heed the claims of these ignoramuses.

They just seem to be the perfect storm of all sorts of crap coming together at the same time, much like those cicadas that come out of the ground every decade and a half.

No, no.  My mind is made up.

There is absolutely no way I can support, even in the least, a treasonous, seditious, conman.

But it goes one step further and it closes the door on any further discussion as far as I am concerned.  I will never support a rapist.

Ain’t gonna happen.

David Magnusson is a retired police chief with 36 ½ years of law enforcement experience having spent 30 of these years with the Miami Police Department retiring as an assistant chief. He was chief of the Havelock Police Department in the Marine Corps City of Havelock, North Carolina, home to Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station. He returned to South Florida as chief of the El Portal Police Department.

A historian, Magnusson has written on military and presidential history topics. He is a diehard baseball (St. Louis Cardinals) and boxing fan. Magnusson resides in South Florida with his wife. Their children and grandchildren are never too far away.

David Magnusson
is an opinion writer, historian and former Police Chief of El Portal, Florida and Havelock, North Carolina who served in the Miami Police Department for 30 years.

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