interesting article from the left
The Corporatocracy Will Have a Tough Choice Between Biden and DeSantis
The corporatocracy especially doesn’t want anything to disrupt what looks to be a perfect 2024 contest—from its point of view, anyway. President Joe Biden versus Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would be the corporatocracy’s dream campaign. After all, it wouldn’t really matter who wins between two right-of-center politicians; the real winner will be Wall Street and the Military-Industrial-Media Complex.
That’s the main reason Donald Trump—who currently leads Biden in some recent polls—will not be at the top of the GOP ticket in 2024. The corporatocracy, which, like many of us, believed Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in to win the White House in 2016, is not about to make that mistake again.
The problem with Trump—at least as far as the corporatocracy was concerned—was that, like Sen. Bernie Sanders, he was a loose cannon who threatened to blow up the system (by overturning elections, reforming NAFTA, denying science, fomenting racial divisions, ending wars, dismissing NATO). The corporatocracy wants a safe candidate who won’t rock the ship of state too much. It thrives on the status quo, not chaos.
By focusing on protectionism, bringing jobs back home, NAFTA and the fake wokeness and real greed of giant corporations, Trump was able to do something that was unthinkable twenty years ago—turn the GOP (at least superficially) into an anti-corporate party.
Little wonder this scared the hell out of the corporatocracy.
The ruling class will work overtime in 2023 and 2024 to make sure Trump gets nowhere near the White House. Then it will have to decide whether it wants Biden, who has been a remarkably agreeable corporate stooge, or some one like DeSantis, who won’t be all that much different than Biden.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/01/the-corporatocracy-will-have-a-tough-choice-between-biden-and-desantis/