Chris Rufo is the latest iteration of a certain sort of person in the Ron DeSantis operation.
Rufo for the last year and a half has been a main surrogate for what DeSantis has sought to make his signature — the overarching anti-“woke” policy palette that’s been the primary political fuel of his post-pandemic ascent. | Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP
“It’s sort of like using a person,” said a person who has worked with both Rufo and DeSantis who was granted anonymity to speak freely, “as a dog whistle.” And so Rufo had hovered above the much-publicized struggle on the campus of New College well before he and his Neumann TLM 103 microphone appeared here last month in grayscale on the conference room screen.
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