I think you're 'whistling past the graveyard.' Ron InSantis is being marketed as the 'smart Trump,' even the 'sane Trump,' in the conservative Republican world. They love his anti-liberal fascist agenda. They want to 'own the libs' even while these con-artists are actually owning the rubes, and themselves.
The 'modern' Republican Party has conned itself and it is perfectly ok with that. They live in an echo chamber, a conspiracy laden world of woke boogeymen. They live in fear of M&M's, pronouns and George Soros. They feed off each other's hatred of "those people" who are not like them.
Florida 451. Where the free and open exchange of ideas goes to die.