Ron DeSantis is lucky that Florida prohibits petitions to recall the governor. He’s asking for one.
On Monday, two days after the state set a national record for COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period, DeSantis declared, “I think we’ve stabilized at where we’re at.” Pair that comment with the governor’s previous eloquence as the surge grew: “We are where we are.”
Imagine DeSantis as the firefighter who watches a house burn and expresses hope because he sees rain clouds. At The Villages, Florida’s “white power” Republican redoubt, DeSantis dismissed concern Monday over the soaring numbers. The state is “much better off than in March.”
The governor’s reckless indifference to the pandemic aligns with that of his ventriloquist in the White House. DeSantis wants voters to see the state’s economy recovering. So he closed down too late and, like other Trump toadies, reopened too soon.
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