Ron DeSantis’ exit from the presidential race wasn’t a surprise after his seven-month slide in the polls, but part of the Florida governor’s rationale for rejecting Nikki Haley to endorse Donald Trump shows the spell the former president continues to cast on the Republican Party.

“He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism — that Nikki Haley represents,” DeSantis said in his exit video on Sunday. “The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology, are over.”

“Nikki Haley is Loved by Democrats, Wall Street & Globalists,” according to a massive backdrop at Trump’s rally in Manchester, N.H., on Saturday.

Only in Trump’s Republican Party is a 77-year-old politician who lost a presidential race and control of both chambers of Congress during his tenure viewed as the future.

Haley, 52, is one of the most accomplished women in the Republican Party today. She was a two-term governor and ambassador to the United Nations who also happens to be a woman of color. Republicans like to say they don’t play identity politics until they celebrate gaining House seats in 2020 and winning the majority in 2022 with candidates that look a lot like Haley.

The attacks against her aren’t even........

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