As we’ve been documenting here at LI, the lunatic leftists in the legacy media and Democrat party (but I repeat myself) have been busily screeching that DeSantis is “worse than Trump” and warning that he’s a ‘fascist’ . . . about freedom, apparently. Somehow. They wail that he’s all the wrong -isms and -phobics who wants to force women into the ‘slavery’ of having a child, disallow kiddie porn in grades K-3 (the horror!), and effectively dismantle—in Florida—their woke DIE and globalist agenda.
Not wanting to be left out of the DeSantis Derangement Syndrome (DDS) asylum, a few people on the right have also started bashing DeSantis with baseless lies, lies, and more lies. The latest desperate bid to undermine him is that billionaire busybody George Soros “endorsed” Governor DeSantis.
When I first saw this, I rolled my eyes at how transparently desperate the Democrats had become given that DeSantis suspended a Soros-backed State Attorney for refusing to enforce bans on child genital mutilation and abortion restrictions, a move that was later upheld by a federal judge. But this utter nonsense and completely #FakeNews didn’t come from Democrats.
The problem, of course, is that Soros did nothing of the kind.
The 92-year-old said: “My hope for 2024 is that Trump and Governor DeSantis of Florida will slug it out for the Republican nomination. Trump has turned into a pitiful figure, continuing mourning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves.”DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless and ambitious. He is likely to be [the] Republican candidate. This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease, to run as a third-party candidate. That would lead to a Democratic landslide and force the Republican Party to reform itself.”
Soros is saying the same thing that many right-leaning analysts, pundits, and LI commenters have been saying/speculating about for months: If Trump loses the GOP nomination to DeSantis (or any other Republican), will he collect all his toys and stomp off to run third party thereby ensuring if not a Democrat landslide, a Democrat win? It’s not inconceivable.
The shameless and false claim that this is an “endorsement” of DeSantis by Soros, who is clearly hoping for a “Democratic landslide” as a result of the already-bitter and decidedly premature GOP civil war (before DeSantis has even said whether or not he is running), has garnered a lot of attention.
And, as always, people have thoughts.
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