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They were still starting to rally behind DeSantis more and more even after Trump launched his bid.That, plus the minor issue of him actively campaigning for the next presidential election.
But yeah, ignore that, let's find some way, any way, to pretend that Democrats are at fault for the GOP's radicalization problem.
The base started to rally more and more behind him the more the left attacked him and kept him in the 24-hour news cycle.
If we rewind to 2021, DeSantis was something of a "rising star" in the party.
The right becoming more and more receptive to a more "radical message" can absolutely be the result of the left moving further left on some specific issues. For perspective, when Obama was running "Let's keep marriage the way it is, but civil unions are okay...oh, and I inhaled when I smoked pot in college" was the left-hand boundary of the Overton Window. Today, that would represent a center-right position by 2023 standards.
You look at the pattern of who the right was rallying around before Trump.
George W Bush
John McCain
Mitt Romney
(each more "vanilla" than the last)
Then out of the blue, they get behind Trump without any outside stimuli?
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