I've heard people make this case before, and I've thought about it some, but eff that. No way I'd consider Trump as a less-bad alternative to anyone. Trump had me missing Baby Bush. As I've said, I think Ted Cruz would have at a minimum done better with the COVID response, (everyone saw he had his mask on when he was fleeing the Texas deep freeze to go Cancun) and that alone would have been a huge deal and saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the US, possibly millions of lives worldwide.By the way, I think we may be in a similar be-careful-what-you-wish-for situation right now. In our hope that Trump never again occupy the Oval Office, we're favoring Anybody-But-Trump. The most likely contender is DeSantis. In Trump's case, we were sometimes saved from the evils he proposed by his lack of carry-through: his laziness, incompetence and stupidity. We shouldn't really be favoring the prospect of a more competent evil person (though I have to confess I still am).
A competent Republican President is still a competent President. No more incompetent Presidents. No more Trump. Even Bush, for all his silliness was competent enough to surround himself with competent people to delegate to and take advice from. We've gotten a hefty dose of how bad things can get with Trump, and if he gets back in office, it will definitely get worse, way worse. I don't know what DeSantis is going to do, what racist, bigoted, evil things he has in store, which I'm guessing are many, but a steady, competent hand at the helm, steering the ship in a direction I don't want to go, and who will duly step down when he is required to, is preferrable to a maniac letting the ship be blown around aimlessly into every storm, intentionally crashing into every iceberg he sees just to see what will happen, and leading a mutiny rather than giving up the wheel.
Our choice unfortunately is always between the lesser of two evils. I don't want Trump back under any circumstances.