Another great article, but I think you gloss over the biggest reason he has a good chance of becoming president - and that is the amazing ability of Republican voters and elected officials to coalesce around whomever their party puts forth. With Mr. Trump the pre-eminent example. Huge swaths of the party publicly condemned Trump during the 2016 primary season and then docilely fell in line for the general election. Herschel Walker is another good example of the party members coming out to vote just for a candidate, even after he had demonstrated extreme levels of hypocrisy, dishonesty, and incoherence. DeSantis' baggage is not nearly as vast as that of Trump or Walker.