The move comes two days before the primary in the state, where he was projected to fall behind both former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
We can’t keep relying on the fascists being cartoonishly bad politicians. Trump’s cheese brain and buffoonishness hurt him, Desantis’s completely alien personality hurt him, but these limitations have just been happenstance. The fascist movement is ready and willing and out in the open, and sooner or later they’re going to find someone who doesn’t have these ancillary flaws. There are plenty of smooth talking sociopaths out there who can feign human emotion and string together complete sentences while being a generic white guy under the age of retirement, we’re just lucky they haven’t risen to the top yet, because we’re kind of squeaking by already.
We can’t keep relying on the fascists being cartoonishly bad politicians. Trump’s cheese brain and buffoonishness hurt him, Desantis’s completely alien personality hurt him, but these limitations have just been happenstance. The fascist movement is ready and willing and out in the open, and sooner or later they’re going to find someone who doesn’t have these ancillary flaws. There are plenty of smooth talking sociopaths out there who can feign human emotion and string together complete sentences while being a generic white guy under the age of retirement, we’re just lucky they haven’t risen to the top yet, because we’re kind of squeaking by already.