this almost certainly falls into a weird middle ground of “virtue signal that even he knows is not realistic, but which also speaks to the legitimate opinion of many Republican voters and elites probably including himself”. DeSantis is many things–but ignorant is not one of them.
DeSantis is all about performance politics. He does things not because he thinks they are the right thing to do, but because he thinks the performance of him “hurting the right people” will get him more votes.
He doesn’t even care if his laws are overturned later. He can either ignore that they were overturned or he can rail against “liberal activist judges” (even if the judge was appointed by Trump).
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Does he even know what Energy does or is he as ignorant as Rick Perry?
this almost certainly falls into a weird middle ground of “virtue signal that even he knows is not realistic, but which also speaks to the legitimate opinion of many Republican voters and elites probably including himself”. DeSantis is many things–but ignorant is not one of them.
DeSantis is all about performance politics. He does things not because he thinks they are the right thing to do, but because he thinks the performance of him “hurting the right people” will get him more votes.
He doesn’t even care if his laws are overturned later. He can either ignore that they were overturned or he can rail against “liberal activist judges” (even if the judge was appointed by Trump).