So like we all know how 2016 turned out and I think yeah, you have a very good

Like paragraph here about like you said Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election completely transformed the Republican party

Over the course of a single night all the power held by a thousand bickering factions and local power brokers was subsumed into a single man

Disputes over ideology policy commitment to the cause whatever they were now rendered all as irrelevant as the great man

Has shown them to be after years of watching their party seemingly lose and betray them time and time again conservatives now had a winner

Someone who spoke about treated and beat their hated enemies in a way nobody else did

It was electric to this day

They are willing to follow and essentially have followed Donald Trump into the depths of hell for giving them this

What so like now it's Trump's era?

How does Ronda Santa see himself in that and like how does he set himself up to run for governor?

Which was he was successful in doing yeah

Well the thing with the governor thing that was an open seat and it was always going to be his best shot

I think that was like his intention and that was the one thing to Santa's did that was actually good at this just like kind of shows

I think it was him following his instinct is the right wing authoritarian nerd in that moment

But in that time the right was so unified that like all the energy you could put in towards impressing that was basically the energy

You put towards doing anything as a Republican politician

She's just getting Trump's endorsement and this is like I can't really call it clever because they were all trying to do it

But he was able to suck up the Trump like nobody else could and it's really funny to see how like Trump kind of like

Like describes it in retrospect like he says like like really what people point out is a critical moment where he does get Trump's

It's like kind of quasi endorsement for the first time is they were on a plane together going to a rally in South Florida for Roy Moore in

2017

Which up? Yeah

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