Election 2024

Ron DeSantis Just Killed His Presidential Dreams With Six-Week Abortion Ban

And he knows it too, which is why he’s not bragging about it.

T.S. Johnson
3 min readApr 16, 2023

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Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida

I’m going to start this off by saying that Ron DeSantis is a media creation.

Born and raised in Florida, and current Florida resident I can tell you that the man is ill-tempered, thin-skinned and not that bright regardless of where he earned his degrees.

The media has turned him into some boogeyman to be feared and set him up for a presidential run that is likely doomed before it begins. He’s basically the Scott Walker of Florida.

The interesting thing about DeSantis is that he initially eschewed the more extremist positions of the GOP cult, but I guess because he needs those big money donors to run for president he’s become more and more extreme as election season has drawn closer and (COVID Freedumb! CRT BAD! BAN BOOKS!) that’s culminated in a six week abortion ban that he signed late at night to little fanfare and didn’t even discuss during his speech at Liberty University where such news would have been welcome with thunderous applause.

Why is that? Why not brag about your crowning achievement, particularly in front of a rabidly conservative base that would have…

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T.S. Johnson
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