Ron DeSantis should make the virus his running mate, because it made him a right-wing star. Whether you agreed with him or not–and I didn’t–the living thanked him for setting the Florida economy free, and the dead weren’t around to vote against him. He went from an obscure, relatively moderate governor to a reactionary celebrity practically overnight.
But the virus is no longer a big part of our lives. It certainly won’t be by 2024. So why would primary voters give him much credit for dealing with it?
They won’t. That’s the reason he has moved on to the broader issue of wokeness.