I am trying to understand the strategy Ron DeSantis is using to try to get people to want to vote for him.<\/p>\n
As far as I can tell, the man is pinning his presidential hopes on Americans deciding to choose him over the Walt Disney Corporation. So basically, he’s going up against Bambi, Pinocchio, and Cinderella.<\/p>\n
Which means that he has already lost the hearts and minds of voters, whatever their political leanings. That much is obvious.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether this is one of those weird nihilistic things. Like Elon Musk’s very obvious strategy of efficiently destroying Twitter, while pretending (not at all convincingly) that he is trying to help it.<\/p>\n
It’s like watching the opening monolog of Shakespeare’s Richard III<\/i>. The guy really seems to believe that he is the hero of the piece.<\/p>\n
But the audience isn’t fooled for a moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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