Everyone needs to stop talking and especially writing articles about the governor of FL.

It’s a game designed to make you look bad, and it mostly works.

It helps no one & reinforces his base’s beliefs abt the media. It will tip more swing voters toward him than away from him.

Here’s how it works:

A few people react to something he says or does (often bad things but sometimes really minor).

Then it grows online and his staff stoke the freakout.

By the time the most accusatory version circulates widely, his staff puts out info to prove it wrong.

So then you have easily debunk-able stories and tweets (fake news?) about DeSantis, faraway and less-informed progressive Twitter going bananas on false pretenses, and a vindicated GOP base.

This all suits the governor and his political staff (I say this bc he treats governing and campaigning as one, and his comms staff are more about campaigning than information or policy) perfectly. They are playing you like a pawnshop fiddle.

Example 1: “DeSantis has gone missing.” So stupid. I know there was a covid spike. But he can take a few days off. And his staff said he was. But then, when the media were atwitter with #WheresRon, they post a schedule Thursday showing he worked all week but w/ no public events.