Ron DeSantis, is being held to the standards of a typical politician, just as all of those who tried to stop Trump in the 2016 primary were. And against those conventional standards, in his first foray onto the national stage, DeSantis has been struggling.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate hours after being arraigned in New York City, in Palm Beach, Fla., April 4, 2023.
Trump, a rich businessperson and celebrity who served four years as president and is now running his third campaign, is something of a known unknown commodity. For the last eight years, a defining characteristic of Trump as a political figure has been that he is graded on something of a curve, his more outrageous comments striking some voters as musings rather than as deeper views on policy.
By contrast, DeSantis, a former congressperson and current governor, is being held to the standards of a typical politician, just as all of those who unsuccessfully tried to stop Trump in the 2016 primary were. And against those conventional standards, in his first foray onto the national stage, DeSantis has been struggling.
Trump also has the advantage of celebrity, and over the course of his presidency, his base became conditioned to dismiss his contradictory policy impulses and statements as just the way Trump talks.
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