Honestly, Nate Silver has a point. It’s not that DeSantis deserves the kid-gloves treatment, but the criticisms have become so reflexive and high-pitched that naturally, sometimes they are bound to be overwrought. If you crank the drama factor up to 11 every time, then any time DeSantis deserves only a level-7 response, you will be 4 not…
Honestly, Nate Silver has a point. It’s not that DeSantis deserves the kid-gloves treatment, but the criticisms have become so reflexive and high-pitched that naturally, sometimes they are bound to be overwrought. If you crank the drama factor up to 11 every time, then any time DeSantis deserves only a level-7 response, you will be 4 notches too high. Here, you mention that “no one remembers” awkward presidential announcements of the past, but don’t consider that perhaps that’s because presidential announcements simply don’t matter very much in general. Of course, to admit that here would be seen as ‘practically an endorsement of DeSantis’… or something.
It’s the same problem that plagued Trump’s coverage by the media, the result of which was that his supporters could always point to recent examples of unfair coverage that painted every mid-level offense as the next holocaust (yes, hyperbole, for anyone tempted to take that literally). The point is that if you were a little more measured and a little less activist, people might take you more a more seriously.
Honestly, Nate Silver has a point. It’s not that DeSantis deserves the kid-gloves treatment, but the criticisms have become so reflexive and high-pitched that naturally, sometimes they are bound to be overwrought. If you crank the drama factor up to 11 every time, then any time DeSantis deserves only a level-7 response, you will be 4 notches too high. Here, you mention that “no one remembers” awkward presidential announcements of the past, but don’t consider that perhaps that’s because presidential announcements simply don’t matter very much in general. Of course, to admit that here would be seen as ‘practically an endorsement of DeSantis’… or something.
It’s the same problem that plagued Trump’s coverage by the media, the result of which was that his supporters could always point to recent examples of unfair coverage that painted every mid-level offense as the next holocaust (yes, hyperbole, for anyone tempted to take that literally). The point is that if you were a little more measured and a little less activist, people might take you more a more seriously.