DeSantis Is Better Off Being Banal Than Being Based

It should not be difficult for even Ron DeSantis’s core supporters to admit that the governor’s presidential-campaign launch was “very online.” It was literally exclusive to an online platform — a platform that imploded at the most theatrically inopportune moment.

Political observers invested in DeSantis’s failure are tripping over themselves to make that aurally amateurish and technically raw moment into a metaphor for a campaign adrift. That effort will be complicated by the lack of visuals associated with the technological hiccups that marred the launch. The oddness of the whole affair spared DeSantis from being immortalized, bug-eyed and bewildered, amid total technological meltdown.