# DeSantis can't win the GOP nomination or the general election in 2024 {How Trump plays into this is allowed}

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**Created:** [February 23, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-cant-win-the-gop-nomination-or-the-general-election-in-2024-how-trump-plays-into-this-is-allowed/980249 "2023-02-23T18:07:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-cant-win-the-gop-nomination-or-the-general-election-in-2024-how-trump-plays-into-this-is-allowed/980249/140 "2023-02-26T04:20:39Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> People used to say, for all the evil crap Mussolini did, he kept the trains running. DeSantis seems like that kind of leader.

I agreed with you up to this point.

DeSantis is not a fascist, and painting him as such will alienate voters genuinely unsure whether to vote for the Democrat or Republican.

If DeSantis is a Mussolini type, what would be his (metaphorical) Ethiopia?

When Trump won, I feared that Mexico would be his Ethiopia. After all that talk about Mexico paying for the wall, I thought he might go to war in an attempt to steal the payment, perhaps by occupying oil fields. But it turned out that even Trump, bad as he is, isn’t a Mussolini.

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