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While I wouldn't mind seeing Donald Trump, the person, disappear from politics, many of his legislative efforts and some of his EO's I fully support. There are others that had intent that aligns with my political views but were so badly implemented and/or sold to voters that the liberal press was shooting fish in the barrel to take them down.....Oh, the children, what about the (insert victim), oh the environment, climate change and those bad fossil fuels? ...... and more, and more and more.
Ron Desantis has clearly been a Trump supporter and to a lesser degree than some of the crazies, enabled PDJT. But based on how he handles them in FL, he handles the press way better than Trump ever did. He doesn't tweet personally but his office does and I've never seen anything stupid coming out of that office that compares with Trump's BS. Desantis also gets politics in the state of FL, meaning he pretty much ignores (won't take the bait) of his D critics.
Beyond just being smart about these things, he deserves a lot credit for managing both the social and economic costs of the pandemic well by limiting catastrophic and politically correct mitigation measures. As well in that department, unlike Cuomo and other Governors, he nailed the way to keep the disease burden on FL hospitals low and in the process, the state has a low death rate and numbers. He ordered schools to open and for teachers to go back to the classroom (there are allowances for hybrid learning based on county sero-prevalence but that gets watched like a hawk at the state level and as soon as it dips below around 8%, teachers are told to get back in the classroom full time.
All of that takes toughness to not cave to political pressure - and that has been and still is massive. I think he lacks Washington experience but he's beyond running for the House. Depending on what the R party does in FL, he could run against Senator Scott who assumed a senate seat after he was FL's governor and was pretty popular for advancing a bunch of conservative legislation - one being an overhaul of FL's unemployment insurance system. I could see an arrangement where Scott moves over or up to allow Desantis to run for Scott's conveniently vacated Senate seat. Same with Rubio as he fit's into the Ted Cruz mold re Trump but Rubio is better at finding the less contentious middle ground publicly.
FL politics could get interesting.
Ron Desantis has clearly been a Trump supporter and to a lesser degree than some of the crazies, enabled PDJT. But based on how he handles them in FL, he handles the press way better than Trump ever did. He doesn't tweet personally but his office does and I've never seen anything stupid coming out of that office that compares with Trump's BS. Desantis also gets politics in the state of FL, meaning he pretty much ignores (won't take the bait) of his D critics.
Beyond just being smart about these things, he deserves a lot credit for managing both the social and economic costs of the pandemic well by limiting catastrophic and politically correct mitigation measures. As well in that department, unlike Cuomo and other Governors, he nailed the way to keep the disease burden on FL hospitals low and in the process, the state has a low death rate and numbers. He ordered schools to open and for teachers to go back to the classroom (there are allowances for hybrid learning based on county sero-prevalence but that gets watched like a hawk at the state level and as soon as it dips below around 8%, teachers are told to get back in the classroom full time.
All of that takes toughness to not cave to political pressure - and that has been and still is massive. I think he lacks Washington experience but he's beyond running for the House. Depending on what the R party does in FL, he could run against Senator Scott who assumed a senate seat after he was FL's governor and was pretty popular for advancing a bunch of conservative legislation - one being an overhaul of FL's unemployment insurance system. I could see an arrangement where Scott moves over or up to allow Desantis to run for Scott's conveniently vacated Senate seat. Same with Rubio as he fit's into the Ted Cruz mold re Trump but Rubio is better at finding the less contentious middle ground publicly.
FL politics could get interesting.
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