Ron Desantis

This is gonna be fun to watch. — In the Sunshine State, the governor has belittled kids wearing masks, fired teachers, removed a democratically-elected state attorney, started a private army, formed an election police force, and plans legislation to require registration of writers critical of his despotic rule. But once the Florida Fuhrer announces he is officially a…

When I learned that “Make America Florida” is a slogan used by DeSantis’s followers, my first thought was: I’m not sure it’s smart to use such a blatant derivative of MAGA. I’ve wondered sometimes, sardonically, if that has kept Putin from coming out with “Make Russia Great Again,” because that…

Link to article in The Independent | HUFFPOST article With American democracy at stake in the 2024 election the kind of silliness shown above would be a mere sideshow one wouldn’t really mind missing if you came late for actual circus. Some of my fond childhood memories are of my…

If we have yet to learn anything about what motivates Donald Trump, it is his predictable pattern to manipulate every situation to his numerical advantage — whether TV ratings, political polls or millions who swoon to his rhetoric, swinging like pendulums in violent extremes. If only we acknowledged, knowledge of…

The political battle for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential race is already heating up, and it is no secret that Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are not exactly the best of friends. Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, is widely considered to be the most…