Among the most deficient aspects of political reporting is the lack of coverage about how the organizations around the people who aspire to the presidency actually function at an operational level. There are real disincentives around reporting operational details and human dynamics because access journalism is profit-, not news-based. There has been scant coverage of the insularity and delusions that drive Ron DeSantis’s operation. I have previously described it as a “mom & pop shop of political malice.” This extraordinary political ad is a cheap knock-off of a famous Paul Harvey meditation, “So God Made a Farmer.” DeSantis is extremely revelatory in it. It offers a window into the image the first couple of Florida sees staring back at them.
Apparently, the British saw something else.