The Ukraine Untruths of Disingenuous DeSantis His recent remarks about the war have been cynical and

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The Ukraine Untruths of Disingenuous DeSantis
His recent remarks about the war have been cynical and deceptive.

by WILLIAM SALETAN MARCH 15, 2023

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-ukraine-untruths-of-disingenuous-desantis/

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Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, bills himself as an enforcer. Speaking in Iowa last Friday as he prepared to run for president, DeSantis bragged about capturing Haitian migrants and sending the National Guard to control “BLM riots.”

“There’s a new sheriff in town,” he told an audience in Des Moines. He boasted that Sheriff DeSantis was finally taking on one of America’s worst villains: the Walt Disney Company. He proudly informed the crowd that he was “staring down the mouse” and “delivering them the biggest defeat” Disney had suffered in Florida.

That’s DeSantis’s idea of courage: rounding up boat people and stripping tax breaks from Mickey Mouse. But when a real menace emerges—hundreds of thousands of Russian troops invading Ukraine and slaughtering civilians—DeSantis chickens out. He preaches appeasement and blames America.

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If a Democratic president were to say these things—dismissing Russia as a threat, cowering before China, preaching moral equivalence, and blaming America for Russia’s war—every Republican presidential candidate would denounce that president as a gutless, soulless, Putin-loving traitor. And Ron DeSantis would be at the front of that pack of accusers.

Instead, a Democratic president is standing up to Putin. And he’s facing a Republican who would rather attack Mickey Mouse.

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[Phoenix61]

1. Please sir, I want some more.

“Instead, a Democratic president is standing up to Putin. And he’s facing a Republican who would rather attack Mickey Mouse.”