DeSantis Achievements: His Appeal to GOP Voters

The other day I wrote about Sarah Longwell’s essay at the Bulwark, about how GOP voters don’t want to go back to the party as it was before Trump. I think that’s understandable. There was one other interesting section where Longwell outlined that only Ron DeSantis seemed to be playing the game of politics. She wrote:

I thought that was a funny list. “Yelling at college kids” was a throwback. It refers to a moment when, with a little exasperation, he told a group of college students they didn’t need to wear cloth masks, that those masks didn’t work and were “Covid theater.” Given that they were all wearing non-respirator masks, DeSantis was merely articulating the same thing that White House adviser Dr. Leana Wen had said months earlier, when she disparaged such masks as “little more than useless face decorations.”

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The other day I wrote about Sarah Longwell’s essay at the Bulwark, about how GOP voters don’t want to go back to the party as it was before Trump. I think that’s understandable. There was one other interesting section where Longwell outlined that only Ron DeSantis seemed to be playing the game of politics. She wrote:

I thought that was a funny list. “Yelling at college kids” was a throwback. It refers to a moment when, with a little exasperation, he told a group of college students they didn’t need to wear cloth masks, that those masks didn’t work and were “Covid theater.” Given that they were all wearing non-respirator masks, DeSantis was merely articulating the same thing that White House adviser Dr. Leana Wen had said months earlier, when she disparaged such masks as “little more than useless face decorations.”