Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis is running for governor in Florida. His campaign consists of acting like boot-licker Vice President Mike Pence—but with darker hair. A small scene that encapsulates DeSantis’s campaign would go like this:
Person: What is your platform, Mr. DeSantis?
DeSantis: What Trump says. That thing. Right?
Surely I am being hyperbolic. But no. No, I am not. Here’s the new DeSantis campaign advertisement that shows how great a “dad” DeSantis is. In it we watch Rep. DeSantis doing things with his toddler-age child, like building a wall of blocks—to replicate Donald Trump’s racist “wall.” Rep. DeSantis reads to his littlest child from Trump’s ghost-written Art Of The Deal. He’s also teaching his daughter to read by not exactly pointing to the words “Make America Great Again” on a Trump campaign poster. This is all set to DeSantis’s wife’s voiceover about how great a dad he is. It’s exactly as driveling as you might imagine.
The production and content of the ad is what we have come to expect from Trump and his surrogates: poorly done, relatively incomprehensible, and riding the line between “conservative humor” and the abject horror we feel for humanity. It’s also a transparent lie. Any parent “teaching” their child by reading from Art of the Deal is not a “good” parent. In fact, they’re such a blatant narcissist, it’s clear that they spend more time on combing the part in their hair than thinking about the content of what they put into their young child’s mind.
You can go below the fold if you want to rage-watch 30 seconds of our country’s newest and most destructive, stupid cult.