Column: My apology to Florida Gov. DeSantis: Sorry, you're even worse than I imagined

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Florida Gov. DeSantis represents all that's wrong with America's coronavirus response.

33 states are experiencing rising caseloadsThese trends point to the difficulty political leaders face in encouraging socially responsible antipandemic behavior, such as staying home and wearing masks, among residents who have become weary of restriction, especially against the backdrop of limited or no progress against the virus.

In California, Newsom has had to accommodate local officials and constituents who resist these policies by allowing them to reopen commercial establishments and public spaces even where the coronavirus is plainly not under control.So what makes DeSantis a special case? It’s that he’s a governor who turned the battle against COVID-19 into a political issue.

The chief politicizer of the battle, of course, has been President Trump, who from the start has depicted the crisis as a personal affront, treated antivirus measures as political darts aimed at himself, utterly refused to set an example for the public by participating in them, and portrayed success against the pandemic as political validation.

Now that the battle is being lost and more than 120,000 Americans have perished from the coronavirus on his watch, Trump is largely missing in action, as is the rest of his administration. Consider how things might have turned out differently had he simply advised Americans to don masks in public and done so himself, as a model. Thousands of lives might have been saved and the notion that going about barefaced was some sort of political statement would have been stifled in its crib.DeSantis has played the part of an apprentice Donald Trump for much of the pandemic period. He personalized criticism of the state’s policies, as though it was all about him.

 

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Ron DeSantis and Tom DeLay look like evil twins

The only honorable thing for DeSantis to do is resign. But then, he's never done anything honorable.

🤦‍♀️DeSantis up shit creek without a paddle & throwing everyone overboard.🚽⚓️🤹‍♀️

GOP religious nuts won't wear a mask to save lives & NOT spread virus pestilence. Yet these occult oriented so-called Christians will wear the racist 'MAGA' cap as their Mark of the Beast upon their foreheads to exalt the man whose family once owned 666 Fifth Avenue, NY (Rev14:9)

It’s Florida, the only other states that elect worse are Mississippi and Arizona.

Sure. Ignore your backyard.

AFarray DeSantis has a younger *pre Bill Barr* face. Maybe we should look less at colors and look more at structures... Resting asshole face is actually easy to spot

WhiteHouse:دور اون چنتا مجسمه سنگی(بت)هم که ازتون باقی مونده فنس و حصار بکشین که نکنه یه وقت معترضین خط خطیش کنن چون باعث میشه روح اون مجسمه های سنگی آزرده بشه(😂😂)البته بزرگ‌ترین بت تو عربستان هستش و شاه و خانواده سلطنتی و شاهنشاهیشون دارن براش نماز میخونن و کمک میخوان...

DESANTIS KILLING HIS OWN FLORIDIANS TO PLEASE TRUMP. GET YOUR HAIRCUTS AND NAILS DONE. GO LAY IN THE SUN IF THAT DOESN'T CURE YOU, THEY CAN BURY YOU RIGHT THERE. DON'T COME TO NY. YOU BANNED US WE BAN YOU. NY HAS THE LOWEST RATE OF COVID WHILE DESANTIS SCREWS FLORIDA FOR TRUMP

Is not his fault he was trick by the trumpy family:

Now do Cuomo. Oh and what does Newsom’s dick taste like?

All the Trump boot-lickers are dangerous.

Is this writer jelly?

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 time for him to resign or face the people of Florida

We have seen repeatedly that Republican politicians do not care in the least for people's safety and security.

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