“You can be the most worthless Republican in America,” DeSantis said on Sunday ahead of the Iowa caucuses. “But if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful.”
And things had been going so well since...I don't think they ever were.
DeSantis was, for some people the Great Not-Trump Hope, and I have no real idea why; sure, he's younger and supposedly sharper, but he ran for governor of Florida specifically as a Trump sycophant, and it's kind of hard to make that kind of volte face politically. He was never a happy warrior--I chose the above gif to demonstrate a man who smiles like someone was jabbing his voodoo doll in the mouth. He came off like a robot with someone still learning how to operate the switches at the control. He hated the press and so did his campaign, and fuck it, that's just stupid.
And while DeSantis is a big deal in Florida because he's got a rubber stamp legislature enabling him (to do so much culture war shit, all leading him up to fucking off the campaign trail right before New Hampshire), he really looks small when you pull in. And I'm not just talking about the high-heel boots and pudding fingers, the weird darting tongue thing he does when he's stressed out like some wary lizard, or the way he stands like he just washed his arms and can't do a thing with them.
For a while there, he was flying high, but all good things must come to an end--and even really ugly misbegotten things like the DeSantis campaign.
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