Ron DeSantis: The reasonable conservative’s choice
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The funny thing is that, to the extent that the words “policy” and “Donald Trump” can be connected (admittedly not much), DeSantis is clearly worse than Trump, without even taking into account that a DeSantis administration would surely be more bureaucratically effective in pursuing its agenda, which consists of the right wing culture war’s greatest hits:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he plans to petition the state’s Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Republican governor, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, gave no specifics on what wrongdoing the panel would investigate, but suggested it would be in part aimed to jogging loose more information about the vaccines and potential harmful side effects.
He made the announcement following a roundtable with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and a panel of scientists and physicians, in which some discussion centered on the fact that pharmaceutical companies have not provided their data on the COVID-19 vaccines to independent researchers.
As Murc said in a comment in the earlier thread about Trump v. DeSantis, the mainstream media are going to be so desperate to normalize DeSantis in comparison to Trump that the inconvenient fact that DeSantis is even more of a radical reactionary than the Grifter King ever was will be, shall we say, somewhat under-reported. (DeSantis would probably make somebody like Adrian Vermeule AG as opposed to the big schlong toilet guy, whose selection epitomized the cogency of Trump’s ideological commitments.)