Watch this video clip from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s press conference yesterday and ask yourselves this question: Why isn’t every Republican governor, Republican Senator, Republican congressman and every other Republican elected official in the United States out there saying exactly the same things?
The answer to that question, of course, is that it takes courage for any politician to go out and say the things DeSantis says in that clip. It takes courage to get out in front of the press and point out its own corruption and failings and rampant mendacity, which is the central point of what the Governor was discussing there.
It takes courage to speak the truth about the Kyle Rittenhouse case and the Waukesha massacre by a domestic terrorist, because doing that gets into a discussion of race and how both incidents have been falsely portrayed in the corrupt press and by despicable Democrat politicians in a very racist manner.
It takes courage, and that’s why you see so few Republican politicians out there talking about the same things. Because exercising courage can be politically uncomfortable. Doing that can get you a - gasp! - bad press day. Having a bad press day is without question the greatest fear of the average Republican politician, which is incredibly ironic since that is the only kind of press day any Republican politician ever really has.
You would think they would all learn that universal reality in a world in which 98% of the news media is made up of rank Democrat political operatives, but they never seem to learn it. The two greatest Republican political leaders in modern times - Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump - did their best to teach them that lesson, and that the only intelligent way to deal with the corrupt news media is to be willing to confront it every day. But it remains stunning how few Republicans ever learn this simple lesson.
Among other Republican governors in the country, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem seems to get it for the most part, but it would be very hard to identify any others among Desantis’s current peers. In the U.S. Senate, you have two: Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Among the 210 GOP members in the House, you might be able to get to five.
That’s it. That’s all the real political courage this generally cowardly political party can muster. That’s very sad, and frightening for the future of our country.
Ron DeSantis gets it. He understands the existential threat a uniformly corrupt media establishment represents to our country. He understands the immense damage the media’s intentionally false coverage of events like the Rittenhouse trial - and its pathetic refusal to cover the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell - do to our society, the damage it inflicts on the very notion of truth.
It’s all so very rare in a Republican politician. Yet, DeSantis does it so consistently and forthrightly that I often fail to appreciate it for what it is.
We should all appreciate Ron DeSantis, enjoy him and support him while we have him, and pray for his health and safety. It takes great courage to do what he does, because it has made him the media’s and Democrat Party’s most universally hated target in this country, because they understand the threat this kind of political courage DeSantis displays every day represents to their hold on power.
They’ve seen it twice before in recent times and will do everything they can to avoid experiencing it a third time.
That is all.
I would also add prayers for his wife battling breast cancer.
I would love DeSantis in the White House