re: From Trump to Vivek: Republicans are fixated on smooth talking phonies over policy

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Contrast of the last 24 hours quite stunning. DeSantis calmly and efficiently guiding his large state through yet another crisis, this one a category-4 hurricane, which he’s done so many times now it is almost taken for granted. Trump telling Beck he has no regrets for how he faced the biggest crisis of his presidency — with the still ongoing destruction of lockdowns and the poison poke. But then he tries to gaslight his own base, who was punished the most by those terrible policies, with a screed condemning “Covid tyrants” with no self-awareness whatsoever. “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” Thomas Jefferson

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