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DAVID DEMILO's avatar

Interesting, isn't it, that Will defaults to marketing gimmicks when he considers politicians. A baseball analogy would have been far more insightful.

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Richard Vigilante's avatar

I don't see DeSantis as especially combative, though I think he mis-stepped with Disney. He is certainly not combative in the way Trump is, which is always personal and tending toward defensive. It's always about him. The few times I have heard DeSantis speak he has always been the opposite of defensive. He is a mensch, not aa blowhard. Reagan is rightly remembered as an optimist and conciliator but perhaps his signature moment was walking away from Helsinki. The political pressure to pretend to have a deal was huge. He ignored it. DeSantis has had those moments also, as with the College Board but they were not personal or angry, just honest.

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Tom Veal's avatar

A fine column, but I object strenuously to the term "Trumpkin" for unshakeable followers of the former President. Trumpkin was a brave and honorable dwarf who, if he lived in our universe, would undoubtedly endorse Governor DeSantis.

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