What if the problem for Ron DeSantis isn’t that he resembles the spiraling candidacies of the past, but that he’s emulating someone who had a great start, then turned a plateau into a cascade?
The general experience in Republican presidential flameouts over the past decade and a half has been the very obvious crash and burn.
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