Jeff Timmer of The Lincoln Project was reacting to the 2024 hopeful saying he would be in favor of axing four federal agencies if elected president.
Ron DeSantis the "worst candidate I've ever seen"—Former GOP strategist
3 years ago by L4sBot to c/politics
FlyingSquid 16 points 3 years ago
I don't know, he appears to have all of his teeth...
FranklinsBeard 4 points 3 years ago
He's got untrustworthy teeth
jmer 7 points 3 years ago
I live in Democrat majority Central Florida. Last week I had reason to drive out to the Gulf Coast, through very Republican areas.
I spotted more Trump 2024 banners and flags than I cared to count, but only 1 DeSantis sign.
DeSantis can't even drum up support in his home state.
chronicledmonocle 16 points 3 years ago
The worst candidate.....SO FAR!
miraclerandy 13 points 3 years ago
Ron DeSantis feels like an embodiment of a bot designed off of a far-right internet troll that was left to run on autopilot for too long.
wolfpack86 4 points 3 years ago
And loves thigh food
monkeytennis 10 points 3 years ago
Oh great. So, he stands a good chance then.
SINapps 9 points 3 years ago
Florida man begins presidential campaign by senselessly attacking largest employer in his state that also happens to be one of the most popular (bafflingly) and most successful corporations in the world. (Edit: typo)
Nobody 7 points 3 years ago
DeSantis is trying to out-Trump Trump by proposing increasingly insane policies, but he's getting almost zero movement in the polls, even when Trump was indicted for stealing nuclear secrets. Trump may be a carnival barker, but he's a damn good one. He connects to his base on an emotional level first, then steers them wherever he feels like going on a given day. DeSantis lacks the charisma to pull off anything similar.
The road to DeSantis becoming the candidate is for Trump to get convicted and disqualified from running. Barring that, he doesn't seem to have a chance.
EnglishMobster 4 points 3 years ago
Convicted felons can still run for office, even from prison.
Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs was arrested in 1918 for publicly speaking out against US involvement in WWI. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "sedition". He ran for US President in 1920 despite being in jail - he wasn't allowed to travel or give speeches, but he was allowed to make one statement to newspapers every week.
Despite being in jail, he still got 3.4% of the popular vote. Warren G. Harding won the election and pardoned Debs in December 1921.
Nobody 1 point 3 years ago
The statute criminalizing the mishandling of classified documents includes in its punishment a bar to running for federal office. If Trump is convicted in the documents case, the law will forbid him from running for president. One caveat: to my knowledge the statute has not been tested in the courts on constitutional grounds, so the Roberts Court will no doubt take the case.
LostMyRedditLogin 7 points 3 years ago
This guy went so far to appeal to Trump's base for the primary he fell off a cliff. I can't believe this clown graduated from Harvard.
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yata 4 points 3 years ago
Over time it seems like his extremist lunacy is a coordinated attempt at making Pence look like a moderate and acceptable candidate in comparison. As if they are trying to pull a Biden with Pence, even though Pence is as complicit in everything Trump did as Trump himself.
prole 1 point 3 years ago
How can anyone who lived through Trump actually believe this? DeSantis isn't some kind of psy-op to make Pence look good by comparison. That's ridiculous.
Given how Republicans vote these days, DeSantis has a very real chance of winning, and you'd do well not to write him off like that. That's how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
IntoDaLagoon 1 point 3 years ago
Ontologically sauceless
NSA_Server_04 -28 points 3 years ago
If he actually could fulfill his campaign promises, he would be amazing.
WidowsFavoriteSon 32 points 3 years ago
And turn this country into a fascist state embodying hatred and bigotry? No thanks.
donchez -12 points 3 years ago
Aren't Ron DeSantis' goals in line with the exact opposite of Fascism? He's attempting to cut down the size of the government, and basically prevent most government intervention in education (by eliminating it as any sort of federal agency, albeit I suspect there'd still be some "anti-woke" education bills). You can say his views are in line with hate speech, but equating it to any sort of Fascism is just plain wrong.
Eldritch 8 points 3 years ago
I can tell you were educated in America. No clue, nor desire to find one. Desantis has been mimicking the actions of past fascists directly. And fascists don't care about size of government one way or another. Neither do so called American conservatives. They just want to be in charge of the corporations and the corporations to be the government. Who you may ask? The answer is yes, because they're the same.
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DeSantis is the physical and spiritual embodiment of the worst aspects of Florida.
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