Tim Miller: “If someone is aspiring to the presidency and their critical takeaways regarding the Trump administration are that Trump was:
- Too deferential to experts on COVID
- Too anxious to distribute a life-saving vaccine
- Not harsh enough on immigrants who were brought here as children
- Too adversarial to the prison-industrial complex, and
- Not passionate enough about the need for a rhetorical attack on the “woke left”
“Well, then you are going to have to forgive me if I come to the conclusion that you are a deranged lunatic.”
“And yet there is a category of DeSantis supporters who become incandescent with rage at any suggestion that their guy might be worse than Trump in certain ways. “