Leaving (the presidential campaign) on a jet plane

Ron DeSantis may have never clerked for Clarence Thomas, but like the king he understands that self-dealing is the best kind of dealing:

Cash is scarce as the caucuses near. Never Back Down, which spent heavily to knock on doors in far-flung states like North Carolina and California last summer, canceled its remaining television ads in Iowa and New Hampshire on Friday, though new pro-DeSantis super PACs are picking up the slack.

Federal records show that, by the time of the Iowa caucuses, the DeSantis campaign is on pace to spend significantly more on private jets — the governor’s preferred mode of travel — than on airing television ads.

Let me say that anyone who donated to Ron Desantis absolutely deserves to have the money spent in the most self-servingly inefficient manner possible.

Running against a former president would require an insurgent campaign. But Mr. DeSantis had grown accustomed to the creature comforts of the Tallahassee governor’s mansion, where a donor had installed a golf simulator for him, and even his rebranded “leaner-meaner” campaign that slashed one-third of his staff wouldn’t give up private jets.

I’m talking about liquid. Enough of other suckers’s money to effectively have your own jet. Enough of other suckers’s money not to waste time. A player.

The good news for Puddin’ Fingers Ron is that he’ll have all the time in the world to spend at TopGolf before you know it. The continuing access to private jets might be harder — plutocrats like the lickspittles who win.