Like Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, and countless others before him..
Those supported by the press and their own hype..

Little Ronnie D is going down in flames.
I remember how much the MSM was pushing him as the next big thing. He was Trump without all the criminal baggage.

Well….as we are about to enter into the Iowa Caucus…..
Ronnie D is flaming out spectacularly….

From the NYT (which must be upset, because they spent over a year fluffing him up):

What Went Wrong for Ron DeSantis in 2023

The Florida governor entered the year flush with cash and momentum. In the months since, internal chaos and Donald Trump’s indictments have sapped even his most avid supporters…

Boxed in by a base enamored with Mr. Trump that has instinctively rallied to the former president’s defense, Mr. DeSantis has struggled for months to match the hype that followed his landslide 2022 re-election. Now, with the first votes in the Iowa caucuses only weeks away on Jan. 15, Mr. DeSantis has slipped in some polls into third place, behind Nikki Haley, and has had to downsize his once-grand national ambitions to the simple hopes that a strong showing in a single state — Iowa — could vault him back into contention.

For a candidate who talks at length about his own disinterest in “managing America’s decline,” people around Mr. DeSantis are increasingly talking about managing his.

Ryan Tyson, Mr. DeSantis’s longtime pollster and one of his closest advisers, has privately said to multiple people that they are now at the point in the campaign where they need to “make the patient comfortable,” a phrase evoking hospice care. Others have spoken of a coming period of reputation management, both for the governor and themselves, after a slow-motion implosion of the relationship between the campaign and an allied super PAC left even his most ardent supporters drained and demoralized.

The same December evening Mr. DeSantis held a triumphant rally in celebration of visiting the last of Iowa’s 99 counties — the symbolic culmination of his effort to out-hustle Mr. Trump there — his super PAC, Never Back Down, fired three of its top officials, prompting headlines that undercut the achievement.

The turmoil at the super PAC — which followed a summer of turbulence inside the campaign — has been almost too frequent to be believed. The super PAC’s chief executive quit, the board chairman resigned, the three top officials were fired and then the chief strategist stepped down — all in less than a month, enveloping Mr. DeSantis’s candidacy in exactly the kind of chaos for which he once cast himself as the antidote…

The governor started the year as the undisputed Trump alternative in a Republican Party still stinging from its unexpected 2022 midterm losses.

But behind the scenes, the DeSantis candidacy has been hobbled for months by an unusual and unwieldy structure — one top official lamented that it was a “Frankenstein” creation — that pushed the legal bounds of the law that limits strategic coordination and yet was still beset by miscommunications. Those structural problems compounded a series of strategic miscalculations and audacious if not arrogant assumptions that led to early campaign layoffs. Profligate spending and overly bullish fund-raising projections put the campaign on the financial brink after only two months.

The candidate himself, prone to mistrusting his own advisers, did not have a wide enough inner circle to fill both a campaign and super PAC with close allies, leaving the super PAC in the hands of newcomers who clashed with the campaign almost from the start…

I wanna go back to his fight with The Mouse. He picked a fight with the biggest employer in the State. In a state that depends upon tourism for its life.
And, he wasn’t even smart enough to understand that The Mouse only hires lawyers who are killers. That they would not be playing. Those of us watching it, was like, why is Disney being so quiet. It was because, when they struck, all t’s would be crossed and all i’s would be dotted. The way that Disney prevailed in plain site? Meant that Ronnie D had nobody on his team that was actually loyal to him. If he did, they would have alerted him to what Disney was doing in plain site. Then, he tried to dismiss it, like he didn’t begin it in the first place, and Disney was like, ‘ Naw Son…you started it..we’re going to end it.’

He has been completely out of his depth from the beginning. Watching him crash and burn has been one of the best things to remember from 2023.