By Kyle Smith
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Not least among the reasons I hope Ron DeSantis is the
next Republican nominee for president is this one: The nation deserves a clear,
honest reckoning with how we faced up to the Covid crisis, unclouded with any
distractions such as the personality defects of Donald Trump. DeSantis is the
one potential candidate who can vigorously represent what has become the
conservative position: that non-pharmaceutical interventions such as masks were
generally useless in stopping the spread of a highly contagious airborne
disease, and even if they did have some small benefit, it was certainly not
worth the immense psychological and developmental cost imposed cruelly and
mindlessly on the children of this country. Florida children went back to
school unmasked in August of 2020 and got on with their lives. I wish I could
say the same of New York children, who have been beaten into submission and in
many cases are still wearing masks, though they are no longer mandated.
Karol Markowicz, who was driven out of New York City and
moved to Florida with her family when she decided her three children could not
absorb any more punishment from the state in the name of “protecting” them, has
a strong column up along these lines at RealClearPolitics.
As Karol notes, the Democratic Party-aligned media is furiously trying to argue
that DeSantis is “just like Trump” or “much worse than Trump.” I do not think
that the voters will swallow this argument, as they have eyes and ears.
DeSantis’s ability to calmly and convincingly explain his positions in complete
sentences instead of word bursts is a refreshing change from Trump’s style, as
is his ability to correct Democratic Party toadies posing as nonpartisan
reporters without getting distracted by various feuds, grievances, and lies
about who won the last election.
DeSantis is like Trump in that he
utterly rejects false media narratives. He is simply much more effective at
this than Trump. So he poses a colossal threat to the media’s ability to
dictate terms of the conversation, and if he seems to have a shot at the White
House, they will come after him at least as hard as they went after Trump.
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