Ron DeSantis tries a page from the Trump playbook but only ends up coming off like an idiot

| 9:00 pm EDT May 27, 2023
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After teasing his farce of a campaign for over a year, Ron DeSantis finally decided to declare his candidacy for 2024 this week – and it went over about as smoothly as his idiotic battle with Disney has been going, with an embarrassing launch party hosted by right wing fan boy Elon Musk that millions of users were locked out of due to the bandwidth.

President Biden, however, wasted no time with the perfect response to this disaster, by dropping a commercial – a link that works – his Twitter team reminds us – playing all of the greatest hits of what a disaster DeSantis would be for the country if he got anywhere near the White House.

So of course, on Friday, DeSantis showed that he’s even worse than the president’s takedown of him would suggest, as he weakly said that if he were in charge during the COVID shutdown, he would have told Fauci two things: “You are fired.” You can probably guess which former guy who occupied the Oval Office that he was paraphrasing, as he tried to criticize Donald Trump but only managed to show the limits to his Trump impersonation.

The two Republican frontrunners are not just close to being the same thing, they are the same thing: The GOP script is always the same: acquire as much power as possible and loot whatever you can along the way while burning down democratic institutions. That’s why we need to stop them in 2024.