Having listened to me (LOL), DeSantis released an economic policy package yesterday. Having actually not listened to me, it is a collection of standard GOP talking points added to mindless attacks on China, woke corporations, and universities. It basically tells the donor class that he will leave them alone if they shut up, and it tells struggling reactionary workers that he has nothing to offer them. It is neither aggressively populist nor an imaginative effort to help business. In short, it is an opportunity lost.
DeSantis also told the world he thought abortion restrictions should be left to the states. In isolation, that is a perfectly reasonable position to take; in context, it is suicide. DeSantis needs the rabidly anti-abortion crowd in Iowa to vote for him; now, they will vote for Pence or Scott. He will be attacked from the left for signing a draconian abortion bill in Florida, and from the right for not supporting a national ban. Tactically, it makes no sense.
I think this is the end for DeSantis. I just don’t see how he can recover from this. Even his wife can’t save him now.