Category Ron DeSantis
DeSantis play is for angry Covid-related warriors, conservative intellectuals and college-educated “anti-woke” types. Can it overcome Trump’s populist working class dominance?
Even as Governor Ron DeSantis continues his sinister non-candidacy candidacy (because here in Florida we have pesky progressive laws like “resign-to-run” and full disclosure of use of state funds etc) the race for the GOP Presidential nomination becomes crystal clear – it’s a contest between two very different visions of the GOP. DeSantis’ despite trying […]
DeSantis insults Florida while claiming he invented “state pride”- Florida has always been worth fighting for.
I’ve been proud to be a Floridian since I was a kid – maybe it was insecurity when relatives from up north would brag about New York, or my friends in school’s parents would brag about New York, or the person who lived next door would brag about New York, or the guy at pizza […]
DeSantis instincts & sheltering may have let him down – Trump is now aggressively defining DeSantis.
This week Ron DeSantis really began campaigning for President in earnest. He went to Ohio, Virginia and New Hampshire (an early primary state my sources indicate DeSantis team is not convinced he can be that competitive in vs Trump for what it’s worth) this week, while choosing not to pay a visit to Fort Lauderdale […]
Beyond Politics: Will Fumbling DeSantis Fail Beyond Politics:
I appeared on the Beyond Politics podcast to discuss Ron DeSantis and Florida’s drift to this point. In the last 20 years Florida has gone from balanced swing state to incubator of far-right Trump clones, and it’s about to produce the leading non-Trump Republican candidate for President, Ron DeSantis. So why did Florida go so…nuts? […]
DeSantis lets down Broward after a once in one thousand year event – is it punitive? Regardless, it hurts badly.
Meteorologists called it a once in one thousand year event. I think it’s likely to be a more frequent thing with the way the climate is changing but whatever the case, the scope and scale of this week’s Fort Lauderdale flooding was unprecedented in the Sunshine State. Much has been rightly made of Governor DeSantis […]
DeSantis and tax increases – No wonder he wants the GOP to move past tax cut rhetoric
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis loves to play culture warrior and even this past week chastised other GOPers that “think their job is to cut taxes and not do anything else.” Sure, in one sense DeSantis is correct, because historically the GOP has been a johnny-one note party, something I’d condescendingly note in years past – […]
Disney episode show DeSantis downfall could be down to his faith in his own instincts
Ron DeSantis operates more on pure instinct and feel than any high-ranking elected official I have ever seen in my life. Never before has someone been so convinced of their own immortality that they reject all professional advice or polling data – but it must be said in the small pond of Florida politics, which […]
Bob Iger is right – DeSantis is “anti-business” and “anti-Florida”
Governor DeSantis’ punitive efforts to punish Disney won him a lot of admirers among potential GOP primary voters around the nation but ultimately hurt Florida in multiple ways. Earlier this week, at his first shareholder presentation since returning as Disney CEO, Bob Iger took on Florida’s Governor. “And that just seems really wrong to me, […]
The Florida Squeeze 