As the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign edges ever closer to reality, liberal fears of a DeSantis presidency are getting ever more detached from it. Is he just as bad as Donald Trump? Or even worse? And is it OK to scold your fellow liberals for jumping to conclusions about DeSantis? Or are the scoldings themselves premature?
Pondering all this, I have a radical suggestion: Why not exercise some patience and, you know, wait and see what happens?
Consider that, at this point in the 2016 cycle, Trump hadn’t yet done many of the things that his strongest critics would point to. Trump didn’t mock a reporter with a disability until November 2015, didn’t propose banning Muslims from entering the US until December, didn’t encourage violence from his supporters until March 2016. His invitation to Russia to intervene in the election didn’t happen until July 2016.
