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Let's say the former. The sort of nastiness that you think Republicans should find disqualifies a candidate. In that case, would you be willing to let a Republican like De Santis have control of the Presidency, rather than the terrible Democratic candidate?
Basically you're flipping the current 'sitch'; Trump running as a Democrat versus DeSantis on the R side.
I'd go with DeSantis and trust in the American public to continue voting for candidates that are not poo-flinging agents of chaos; that absent a revenge-driven, narcissistic, compulsively lying, pandering conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office, the system will cycle back as it always does.