MBD, I had never thought of the point you raise in your column about whether DeSantis will have Rust Belt appeal in a potential GOP primary.
We haven’t really heard from him on some of these national economic issues, but he is — understandably and rightly — relentlessly sunny about the Florida model.
It’d be interesting to see how much sheer combativeness, especially on the culture, matters to those voters, or if there is simply no substitute for a populist economics.