OpEd: 'DeSantis’s tactics — and their movement into the mainstream — don’t exist in a vacuum; they are empowered by a media ecosystem that’s all too eager to sanitize his image and thereby enable him.' More from leximcmenamin ⬇️
If all this wasn’t enough, DeSantis is also a hypocrite. No one was quicker to compare him to Trump than DeSantis himself, a few years ago. In a, DeSantis “builds a wall” with one of his children and reads another a book about Trump, with “Ron DeSantis: Pitbull Trump Defender” stated in all caps at the bottom. Given the advent of conservatives winning by, the hypocrisy here is worth identifying, even if it not surprising.
Just like Trump, DeSantis is a wealthy, pro-corporate, Ivy League-educated politician masquerading as a populist. Further empowering someone like this, especially after the chaos his governorship has wrought, would have serious consequences. But holding this against DeSantis, or holding up DeSantis as if he’s unique from Trump, as if their individual wrongdoings are what we need to stop, misses the forest for the trees. We need to reject this normalization at the root.
Media commentary that separates DeSantis from the broader conservative campaign to shred any remaining social safety net for marginalized communities in the US plays into a concept presented by the philosopher Hannah Arendt: In one of her writings about the Holocaust,
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