I'm not stumping for DeSantis here, I'm only asserting that its laughable to think that he wouldnt have a chance or get traction.
WRT pro freedom etc we havent had a "pro freedom" president make it to the last round in as long as ive been alive, so thats somewhat of a non starter. NPCs want to feel "safe and
warmy" so that makes it difficult.
Trump in some ways ended up being pro freedom by accident but still anti gun becasue he sucked the NRAs dick, but thats not a surprise given institutional fealty towards them by
politicians.
He'll def get traction, but IMO his brand of politics won't play well outside of FL and maybe a handful of deep deep R states.
The more I think about it, Trump just happened to get lucky with a lot of stuff or the timing was good due to external factors.