Now's the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be | Margaret Sullivan

"On women's reproductive rights, DeSantis signed into law a bill to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant."

""Florida is the ideal haven for privileged Americans who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes," Kleinknecht wrote, with no income tax for individuals and a rock-bottom corporate tax rate."

"If Americans elect Ron DeSantis - and let's face it, stranger things have happened - we might be unlucky enough to find out."

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"Is the 44-year-old merely a younger and less impulsive Trump, or does he offer his own special set of worries for those who care about democracy, fairness and good government?"

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"Media speculation raged about DeSantis ditching an in-person event in his Tampa-area hometown, and about how much attention he would get on Fox News, which keeps falling in and out of love with the waabe Trump slayer."

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"One clue came this very week as a Florida school district confirmed that - after only a single complaint from a parent - a school had decided to remove from the elementary-school area of its library The Hill We Climb, by the young Black poet Amanda Gorman, whose gorgeous recitation of it stole the show at Biden's 2021 inauguration."

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"Consider what the two-term governor has wrought in his home state and in his early forays into world affairsnnPolitical journalists and pundits spent much of Wednesday obsessing over the gimmicky way that the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was announcing his candidacy for presidency - in an audio chit-chat on Twitter Spaces, in the company of the billionaire Elon Musk and of David Sacks, the South African-born venture capitalist and Republican donor who recently opined that continued military support for Ukraine could lead to "woke war III"."

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