• DanicaTheRebel [comrade/them,she/her]
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    10 months ago

    I find it funny how just a couple of years ago I was terrified of Ron DeSantis because he had the potential to be an actually competent fascist president, but then he blows up his own political career by going against cheeto-man Like he could have just waited until 2028 to run against AOC or gruesome Newsom and have a decent shot at nomination.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Like he could have just waited until 2028

      He could not. He can't run again in Florida and by the time it comes around to the next presidential he would be a nobody. It was now or never for him, he had to.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      It also turns out that was manufactured fear and he’s not competent at all

      • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        The worst part, was early on in Florida his administration was rather popular. He hadn't embraced the far-right culture war bullshit, he hadn't gone off the rails with COVID, he could have maintained that centrist Republican lane and probably done much better.

        He has the political instincts of one of those fictional lemmings that jumps off a cliff.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          He was popular because of his anti-Covid lockdown policies. Keeping Florida open for partying was the entire reason he had national attention and popularity