Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Not often does a presidential announcement bomb so spectacularly that a new insulting hashtag (DeSaster) is born. But it was that sort of kickoff for Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.
), he was playing the victim. Listening to two wealthy White guys bellyache about the Atlantic magazine and Vanity Fair was eye-rolling.? Spending time on bitcoin seemed to be yet another instance of DeSantis running down a rightAnd sometimes, his attacks seemed simply bizarre. He claimed he does not ban books because people can still buy them. He attacked the NAACP and Disney, and railed at something called “accreditation cartels.”DeSantis’s Fox News appearance didn’t help matters.
It’s never good when the host starts by taunting you. “I can’t promise you that I won’t crash, but Fox News will not crash during this interview,” Trey Gowdy told DeSantis. Again on Fox News, the governor dumped on ESG, no doubt mystifying a good deal of the audience. He went after the FBI, threatening to bring the bureau to heel. In another unintelligible sound bite, he argued that the “woke mind virus is a form of cultural Marxism.
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