Ron DeSantis just reminded us what a depraved sociopath he is

| 8:00 pm EDT April 21, 2021
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in completely over his head. He’s trying to be Donald Trump, but he’s too dimwitted to pull it off. The worse DeSantis’ scandals get, and the greater risk he runs of losing reelection in 2022, the more deranged his behavior is becoming.

Now DeSantis is making a point of reminding us of what a depraved sociopath he truly is. Days ago he signed an obviously unconstitutional law that made it legal for people in Florida to run over protesters with their cars. This is part of DeSantis’ ongoing effort to falsely paint peaceful groups like Black Lives Matter as terrorist groups, and distract from the fact that pro-Trump groups like the Oath Keepers actually committed a domestic terrorist attack against the U.S. Capitol.

Now that a jury has convicted Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, DeSantis is insisting that the jury had ulterior motives. He appeared on Fox News last night and accused the jury of only convicting Chauvin for fear of “what a mob may do.”

Here’s the thing about sociopaths. They’re not capable of ever doing the right thing for the right reasons. Even if they occasionally do the right thing, it’s only ever for the wrong reasons. So when sociopaths see others doing the right thing, they have to convince themselves that others are also doing it for the wrong reasons.

It’s why right wing sociopaths feel clinically compelled to accuse normal people of merely “virtue signaling” or being “politically correct” whenever they see normal people saying or doing something thoughtful. And it’s why right wing sociopaths can’t fathom that the jury may have convicted Chauvin simply because it was the right thing to do.

Ron DeSantis has little chance of being the 2024 Republican nominee for President, and very little chance of becoming President. But considering what a depraved sociopath DeSantis is, even those odds don’t make us comfortable. We need a nationwide effort to defeat him in Florida in 2022, so that his career will be over before we even get to 2024. DeSantis is revealing himself to be one of the most dangerously depraved political figures in American history.