“We believe everyone matters, everyone is special — and our Heartbeat Protection Act shows that we say what we mean and we mean what we say,” DeSantis said, according to the Post. Then, after a brief hint that there was “a lot more to do”, he walked away from the question to regale the anti-abortion group with what he must have imagined they really wanted to hear, standard stuff about his tax policies.
In fairness to Ron, it’s because he’s gutless – tragically, shamefully gutless, in the medical sense of the word. The man has hydraulics where his guts should be. DeSantis can to want bragging to his friendly audience about his latest acts of far-right cruelty, but DeSantis does it not don’t give a fuck about it, not really; it was quite a spectacle to position him for a competition with seditionist Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president, and now his most pressing concern is to keep his mouth shut about it.
For what? Because DeSantis and the rest of the Republican Party are terrified of public fury over the far-right abortion ban. Republican anti-abortion measures remain terribly unpopular with the publicone of the most burning issues against republicanism that exists today, and no matter how many fancy galas for the theocratic far right each Republican candidate can attend, when the primaries are over and they have to face outside challengers in the party every Republican is terrified that their quotes to these far-right groups will come back to haunt them.
So, in Ron’s case, that means he can’t even muster the courage to mention abortion to an anti-abortion group on the occasion of being feted for his anti-abortion stances – no more. 20 seconds, anyway. Lordy, what if someone did bands?
Again, though, it’s all part of a greater fearlessness that could be prevalent anywhere in politics, but in Ron DeSantis’ case, it’s his main and defining characteristic. Why anyone around DeSantis thinks he has the makings of a national campaign remains a mystery, given how agonizing their attempts were to ensure their candidate was pampered in every last appearance he has. dare to do.
Oh, he’s very brave to appear before far-right anti-abortion groups – but can you even think of a time when DeSantis put himself in a situation where he was exposed to face-to-face criticism from anyone who was not quite right?
No, probably not. Aside from the usual flattery on the far right now strictly among the rising class of republicanism, the DeSantis way is to callously use the powers of his office to attack LGBTQ+ school children, or their teachers, or college professors who have had the audacity to disagree with the Republican edicts of Florida, and to hold very carefully staged press conferences for him to brag about his bullying, conferences in which only his supporters and fellow bullies are allowed to be seen or heard from.
It just became crystal clear Why Ron’s dog handlers also don’t allow him to appear in mixed company whenever they can help him. You can put him in a photo shoot literally surrounded by kids and he make a total ass of himself before it goes even halfway on stage.
The man bullies the kids, but doesn’t have the courage to defend his most radical positions in a room full of people who lobbied the most for these radical bills? Pfft. Other politicians, men like Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, learned cowardice after running for president and being hurt by a loudmouth jester calling them mean names, but DeSantis is a born coward. . He will run away from his own shadow from day one.
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