Sadly you "get it" better than zymurgy does........
DeSantis is just a horse with a different feather.
In terms of economic policy, yes. Within the specific context of the office of President (currently the office of Chief Puppet), DeSantis is a globalist horse with a red feather instead of a globalist horse with a blue feather. In the end, still a globalist. Think he wouldn't be a globalist if elected President? Just take a look at all the rich elitist globalists who are funding his campaign. They will obviously want THEIR OWN agenda advanced, not the agenda of the common working man...
This is where "battered conservative syndrome" annoys the hell out of me with regard to my fellow conservatives who continue to be suckered into believing that the corrupt RNC club is somehow going to magically start representing their own economic interests for a change... NOT GONNA HAPPEN... Gotta support MAGA, not the RNC club, in order to get that...
DeSantis is envious of Trump, and wants to be just like him- He just wants to Steal Trump's base from Trump!
It's not ultimately DeSantis who wants to steal Trump's base away... It's ultimately the RINO Party (the right wing of the Uniparty, and wholly owned subsidiary of the Demonkkkrat Party) who is paying off DeSantis to put on a MAGA pretense to steal enough of Trump's base from Trump. They've learned from the "Jeb!" fiasco of 2016... They now know that they need to pay off someone other than Trump who is also typically beloved by MAGA supporters. Enter DeSantis. Enter "Ron!" 2024.
Other than this correction, you do surprisingly sort of get what's happening.
Every idea he has in his head- Trump put it there!
Again, you sort of get it, but are off on the specifics... It's not Trump putting ideas into DeSantis' head... It is the RINO Party doing so...
DeSantis is completely managed by RINO Party handlers at this point... hence the awkward "Top Gov" political ad... hence the copy-cat "reading a book with his children" photo that was also done when Ted Cruz ran... hence the "book tour" being used as a cover to campaign for 2024 while continuing the pretense that his 2024 campaign hasn't been pre-planned by the RINO Party since at least December of 2021. There is NOTHING authentic about him and his campaign for 2024 at this point... same ol' same ol' from the RINO Party...
This is why I support people like Donald Trump and Kari Lake... they are both authentic people who support the nationalist economic policies that this nation so badly needs right now.
And you can say the same thing for Nikki Hokey!
What I just said above re: DeSantis also directly applies to Nikki Haley, except unlike DeSantis, she's a straight up lying backstabbing RINO POS right along with the worst of 'em. She's currently being used by the RINO Party as an attack dog for DeSantis, so that DeSantis can continue with the pretense that his campaign hasn't been pre-planned since at least December 2021, and so he can continue with the pretense that he is "above the fray", "above attacking fellow Republicans", blah blah blah. It's the same old "elite club" bullshit to manipulate people into turning on Trump, and anyone who can't see it at this point is willfully ignorant.
The Democrats, along with the Independents who are fed up with the direction the Republicans are going in, and with the addition of Republicans that are willing to vote Democrat now just to end the TRUMP era, combined together, are the hugest Voting Bloc our country has ever had!
Many self-proclaimed "Independents" are actually conservatives who are simply fed up with the RINO Party and no longer wish to be associated with them. A much smaller remaining group of "Independents" are Democrats who wish to virtue signal about their claimed ability to "think for themselves".
Outside of that correction, once again, you do sort of get it. Yes, RINOs are soon going to be openly, and in large numbers, moving over to the Demonkkkrat Party (it's already been slowly happening since 2016, but the floodgates are now about to be opened). You're also ignoring many former Democrats who have been joining up with the MAGA movement since 2016.
Why make it easy for them to win?
A battle is not a war.
End the Trump era by selecting candidates that have left Trump and his Conspiracy Theories, lies, disrespect for the law, and unnecessary hatred behind.
The RINO Party wants to end the Trump era (MAGA) because they, like their Demonkkkrat Party owners, are globalists who despise the common working class man.
You continue to support politicians who hate you. zymurgy continues to be a "battered conservative", manipulated by politicians who support, due to who they receive their funding from, the same globalism that he claims to oppose.