“Be forewarned: DeSantis is the type of candidate the Republican donor-class treasures most — a well educated libertarian anti-redistributionist cloaked in populist clothing,” Andrew Bjelland writes.
by nearly 40%. Both candidates are vying for the same base-support. Both are populist dividers, not uniters.
DeSantis provided a regressive defense: “I think that they’re probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.” This response, coming from a Yale B.A. in history and a Harvard Law School J.D., was at best underwhelming. Perhaps he should have added: Later in life like, you know, after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect and after the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
in 1964. His analysis targeted the heated exaggerations, unfounded suspicions, and conspiratorial fantasies whereby demagogues leverage “the animosities and passions of a small minority” to their own political advantage.
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