"Forced to choose between honestly confronting what kind of leader their party craves and contriving a reason that the left is somehow responsible for that craving, hack partisans will choose door No. 2 every time.

Either way, don’t weep for DeSantis when he flames out of the race a few weeks from now. He’s a bad guy, or at least willing to enable bad guys for the sake of his own ambition—which is the curse of this entire movement. He’s just not as bad as the alternative." - Nick Catoggio