If Ron DeSantis buys into a theory long associated with Donald Trump, that there is no such thing as bad publicity – i.e. any publicity is a good thing – he will now be provided with a chance to test it out. The Florida governor has come under heavy fire from his growing list of enemies on the left – a list now challenging Trump’s in size, scope, and intensity – in the aftermath of a particularly sickening triple murder in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, January 26. The fact that the gunman was a professed Nazi sympathizer was predictably and instantly laid at the feet of DeSantis – as if he were either sympathetic to the cause or, at best, undisturbed by the murderous racism of the perpetrator.
Is It Really About Jacksonville – or Just Politics as Usual?
The left has been spooked – horrified even – by the success DeSantis has enjoyed, legislatively and…