Grinning DeSantis Accepts Fascist Snowflake Trophy, Not A Good Omen

The devil, they say, is in the details. And poor Governor DeSantis, he’s just going to have to watch out for every single piddly thing, now, or at least that’s how it would appear.

Some enterprising Iowan (dare we say a Democrat? Nah, let’s not. It will just get the Deep State CT going again) gave Ron DeSantis a picture of a snowflake and if you look at the fine print, you’ll see the word “fascist” plain as day.

Ron has not had a good day in Iowa, not a tall. They took his podium away, threw him off balance at every turn, and then this. The tweeter who posted it is with the Washington Post and has a keen eye.

At a Republican political rally in Davenport, Iowa today someone gave @GovRonDeSantis and @IAGovernor Kim Reynolds a handmade “snowflake” with the word "Fascist" secretly embedded in it. pic.twitter.com/as8UN3WRsp

— Steven Goffman (@SteveGoffman) March 11, 2023

And what’s a girl to do when they take away the podium and you’ve got no place to hide?

DeSnowflake has to have every prop at every carefully scripted and controlled event just so. Look what happens when they take away his podium in Iowa. pic.twitter.com/8NeGYUHY4t

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 11, 2023

I think what he really wants is the podium so that he can stash an apple box behind it and step up and be taller. DeSantis has a thing about height, he wears Cuban boots with heels. He should just embrace his true height. If he was comfortable with it, nobody else would give a damn. Same is true is baldness. If you’re comfortable, nobody else cares. It’s only a way to dig at somebody if it’s a sore spot. If it’s not a sore spot, the dig falls short. And being touchy about height is not DeSantis’ only shortcoming. The Atlantic:

The question is whether DeSantis’s presidential hopes will perish as he starts getting out more on the Iowa–New Hampshire dating apps. People who know him better and have watched him longer are skeptical of his ability to take on the former president. DeSantis, they say, is no thoroughbred political athlete. He can be awkward and plodding. And Trump tends to eviscerate guys like that.

“He was standoffish in general,” the Virginia Republican Barbara Comstock, a former House colleague of DeSantis’s, told me.

“A strange no-eye-contact oddball,” Rick Wilson, a Republican media consultant, wrote on Resolute Square.

“I’d rather have teeth pulled without anesthetic than be on a boat with Ron DeSantis,” says Mac Stipanovich, a Tallahassee lobbyist who set sail from the GOP over his revulsion for Trump and his knockoffs. To sum up: DeSantis is not a fun and convivial dude. He prefers to keep his earbuds in. His “Step away from the vehicle” vibes are strong. […]

But no shortage of alleged heavyweights have entered previous primary races only to reveal themselves as decidedly not ready for prime time, or even late-night C-SPAN. Political handicappers and fundraisers overhype them. Expectations create a cryptolike bubble. Then they finally show up and fail to dazzle. The gloss fades fast. You can ask President Beto O’Rourke about this.

“I think he is going to run into some challenges,” Carlos Curbelo, a former Republican congressman from Florida who served with DeSantis in the House, told me. “It’s that question that often comes up in politics—the question of ‘Would you want to have a beer with him?’’’ This is a big-time cliché, of course, but it does feel pertinent. Will he grow on voters like a catchy song, or like mold? DeSantis “has this robotic quality that he has to shed,” Curbelo said. “Everything else checks the box. He is smart and competent and committed to his ideology. He just has to humanize himself.”

Methinks that “humanizing” oneself is a task that should take place long before one hits the presidential primary phase of politics.

All while Trump will be running DeSantis through his patented dehumanizer machine, which made such mashed mush of his rivals in 2016. Trump’s efficient cartooning of “Low-Energy Jeb,” “Liddle Marco,” and “Lyin’ Ted” left them flailing pathetically.

“On a debate stage, all of Trump’s strengths go straight to DeSantis’s weaknesses,” Stipanovich told me. Trump has energy and presence; DeSantis “is dour and doesn’t improvise particularly well.” People who are appropriately sycophantic to Trump swear he possesses a certain charm and charisma. Even those who are eager to vouch for DeSantis don’t say this about him. He would launch any charm offensive unarmed.

“My sense is that Trump would gut DeSantis with a dull deer antler,” said Stipanovich, who has a taste for violent animal metaphors. He also predicted that “Trump would club DeSantis like a baby seal.”

The debate stage with Trump is going to be brutal. That is totally anticipated. But whether DeSantis will trip over his own shoelaces before that day arrives is also anticipated. This fascist snowflake image is not a good portent of what’s to come, let’s just say that much.