Like Charlie Cooke, I agree about the fundamental meaninglessness of Thursday night’s Fox News “Red State/Blue State Debate” featuring Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom. We do not live in a serious world with serious politics, either nationally or in the party’s primary electorates. And even if we did, two of the three participants in the night’s events weren’t particularly serious people either, and the third currently trails Donald Trump by a 48-point margin or so as the second-place challenger for the Republican primary.
None of this matters, in a way. But in another way, it was a fairly interesting exercise, revealing Gavin Newsom to a national audience he rarely confronts and demonstrating that, while Ron DeSantis will not be president short of Donald Trump having a surprise encounter with the Reaper in the next few months, he is utterly in command of his brief even if he lacks some of the qualities necessary to prevail in our present primary environment.
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