It’s safe to say that panic and hysteria have officially set in among Democrats and their allies in the media after reports Tuesday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would be formally announcing his campaign during a Twitter chat with the social media platform’s CEO Elon Musk tonight.
Because it’s been obvious for months now that DeSantis was going to jump into the race, The Usual Suspects have been cranking out the hit pieces, including repeatedly warning us that DeSantis “will be worse” than fellow 2024 GOP contender and former President Donald Trump, attempting to “Kavanaugh” DeSantis by digging into his high school yearbooks, outing him as a primitive pudding eater, declaring his candidacy over before it gets started, and attacking DeSantis’ wife Casey using sources like Trump confidant Roger Stone.
The common theme in all of the media’s DeSantis bashing is that he’s an intolerant bigot, is racist, hates transgender people, etc. In reality, he’s anti-woke, anti-indoctrination, which is what really sends his critics to the fainting couches while clutching pearls every time DeSantis opens his mouth and sets their hair on fire in the process.
The latest example comes from Vanity Fair, which previously pushed its own “DeSantis is worse than Trump” narrative back in January. This time around, they’re suggesting DeSantis deliberately chose Musk for his announcement not because he knew it would get millions of eyes on his campaign but because he and Musk are neo-Nazi kindred spirits:
From the piece:
After many months of refusing to confirm what so many people already suspected, Ron DeSantis will reportedly announce on Wednesday that he is running for president. And that’s not all: He is said to be planning to formally jump into the 2024 race during a conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, because apparently other neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t available.As NBC News notes, aligning with Musk and his 140 million followers could give DeSantis a “significant boost,” but there’s also an obvious downside to teaming up with a guy who has said and done terrible things—and who has turned Twitter into a safe haven for hate speech; given a new home to Tucker “Great Replacement Theory” Carlson; and made remarks about George Soros that the Anti-Defamation League said would “embolden extremists.”On the other hand, it’s very possible that that’s exactly why DeSantis wants to align himself with Musk.[…]Anyway, just as a reminder, a DeSantis presidency is as terrible a prospect as a Trump one.
In just a few words, they managed to demonize pretty much every major conservative/independent player that mainstream conservatives respect – DeSantis, Trump, Tucker, and Musk, while holding leftist “defamation” orgs like ADL in high regard. The translation here is that everyone on the right is an extremist and that the minority groups Democrats need in order to win in 2024 should be really afraid or something.
The problem for Democrats is that fewer and fewer people in those groups are buying those arguments anymore, something that surprisingly enough was inadvertently admitted by CNN “This Morning” anchor Sara Sidner during a Monday interview with NAACP president Derrick Johnson on the group’s blatantly partisan “travel advisory” for Florida.
Sidner pointed out that not only did DeSantis get 58 percent of the Hispanic vote and 13 percent of the black vote in the Florida 2022 gubernatorial election – pretty impressive numbers for any GOP candidate, but that black and Hispanic business owners in Florida were doing extremely well.
She reported that according to the Florida Chamber of Commerce, “on the economic diversification front, in just the last few years, Florida has moved into the number one spot in the United States for black-owned businesses and number two for Hispanic and number two for women-owned businesses.”
After Sidner read the Chamber’s statement, she helpfully translated it for Johnson.
“When you hear those numbers, what they are saying is look, African-Americans and Hispanics are doing quite well here when it comes to running their own businesses and being able to make money here, and being able to live decent lives,” she went on to say.
Both segments are in the below clip. The one on the Chamber’s comments came at about the 3:25 mark and the one on CNN’s 2022 Florida exit polling came at around the 5:10 mark:
I mean, when even the notorious Trump/DeSantis bashers at CNN are stating the inconvenient truths about Republicans (including Trump) making significant inroads with minority groups, you know you’ve lost the game.
In any event, the DeSantis/Musk announcement partnership is a win win for both of them, with DeSantis taking another opportunity to thumb his nose at traditional media outlets and Musk doing exactly what he intended to when he bought Twitter in the first place:
Bingo.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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