Kurt Schlichter, he of the acid-dipped pen, writes his Town Hall column this time in support of Ron DeSantis. He plays down character assassination for a change, and points out that DeSantis has a time-tested and reasonable strategy.
The reasoning goes like this. Maybe half of Republican voters today choose Trump, but half don't. All DeSantis has to do is hang in there, not be discouraged, and wait for all the no-hopers, egomaniacs and GOPe candidates to drop out. The presumption is the small percentages who are favoring them will switch to DeSantis, minus the GOPe who will vote for Biden.
If DeSantis can inherit all or most of the non-Trump vote, and stay the course, eventually a fair number of Trump people will figure out, according to Schlichter, that Trump is not electable in the general election. And wanting to win, will switch to DeSantis.
My judgment: it is a valid strategy, it's logical, but depends on variables we cannot now quantify. Will enough Republicans opt for electability to give Ron the nomination? We simply don't know. However, betting they will is probably DeSantis' only path to victory, unless Trump is imprisoned.
