Run Ron, Run

(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/opinion/desantis-2024.html

("Why DeSantis Has to Run")

Run Ron, run.

Don't get me wrong. I find the Governor of Florida politically abhorrent from his grandstanding play with lives of immigrants, to his Mickey Mouse move with Disney, to his suffocating stranglehold on educating young minds and elevating intolerance as a great virtue, to the damage he did and the lives that were lost during the worst days of Covid. I would rather chew on a full meal of glass than cast a ballot in his direction. But nothing should stop this man from doing this country the greatest favor of all: ridding us of the possibility that Donald Trump could sit once more in the power seat and commit ills that can NEVER  be undone.

Ron DeSantis is a terrible politician, a black mark upon his state and a dangerous disaster. Donald Trump is a terrible man even beyond being a horrendous leader, his moral compass pointing straight to Hell. The lessons he preaches from his pulpit beyond what any of us should ever have to endure and may well be beyond what our democracy can survive should the worst come to pass next November. There is frightening. And then there is the evil that is Donald Trump.

I do not say this without trepidation, for Joe Biden will very soon be an octogenarian with the one political foot in the grave merely by reason of advancing years, while Mr. DeSantis will be viewed by many as the new kid on the block, ready, willing and (in far too many minds) able. If we do our political triangulations, maybe the correct answer to the question posed by the Dems is indeed Donald Trump. But I cannot and will not wish for the day that man ever again comes within sniffing distance of the presidency. 

Fool this nation once, shame on us. Fool this nation twice, take cover. 

Ron DeSantis is a once in a generation storm. Donald Trump is a thousand year flood.

Run Ron, run.