{"id":658699,"date":"2021-08-18T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658699"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:38:33","slug":"opinion-desantis-derangement-syndrome-is-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-desantis-derangement-syndrome-is-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: \u2018DeSantis Derangement Syndrome\u2019 Is Spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-desantis-derangement-syndrome-is-spreading%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American society is now largely defined by year-round political campaigning \u2014 so much so that many are already attempting to predict the outcomes of elections slated for three years down the line.<\/p>\n<p>For the Democrats, the top of the ballot hinges on whether President Biden will make it through the next few years, or whether Vice President Heiress \u2014 sorry, Harris \u2014 will take his spot.<\/p>\n<p>For the Republican ticket, primary season could go in several directions.<\/p>\n<p>In the first scenario, President Donald Trump and his loyalists \u2014 like Napoleon returning from his exile on Elba \u2014 could reclaim Washington for MAGA. In the second, a new dark horse candidate \u2014 as Trump once did himself \u2014 could secure the Republican nomination and lead the party.<\/p>\n<p>A third scenario, however, appears to be increasingly probable: a ticket headed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The Harvard Law graduate, Navy officer, and former Congressman is topping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\">polls<\/a> for likely Republican presidential contenders after\u00a0reversing restrictions upon civil liberties during COVID-19 before nearly any other Republican governor. For the past several months, he has enacted bold conservative policies, valiantly fought the so-called \u201cculture wars,\u201d and traded blows with rivals without coming off as a jerk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-658702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494-922x615.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218644494-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-278578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Take, for example, DeSantis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/governor-beast-mode-conservatives-cheer-after-desantis-fiery-response-to-biden\">retort<\/a> to the Biden administration urging him to \u201cget out of the way\u201d of their draconian COVID policies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But let me tell you this, if you\u2019re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I\u2019m standing in your way, I\u2019m not going to let you get away with it. If you\u2019re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I\u2019m going to stand in your way, and I\u2019m going to stand up for the kids in Florida. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u2019re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you\u2019re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way, and I\u2019m standing for the people of Florida. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So why don\u2019t you do your job? Why don\u2019t you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don\u2019t want to hear a blip about COVID from you.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine \u201cGovernor Beast Mode\u201d \u2014 as some have affectionately dubbed him \u2014 on a debate stage with either Biden or Harris; doubtlessly, one steely glare toward the latter would send her into an uncontrollable fit of nervous laughter.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is all of Trump\u2019s strengths with few of his flaws \u2014 and the Left is responding accordingly, whether they recognize it or not.<\/p>\n<p>For the past five years, the Left has rejected anything positive emerging from Donald Trump and his administration, merely because it occurred under Donald Trump \u2014 a disease sometimes monikered \u201cTrump Derangement Syndrome.\u201d Other symptoms include attributing any and all of the President\u2019s actions to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism; believing quite literally any accusation related to the shadiness of his business or political activities; and obsessing over his physical appearance \u2014 such as his spray tan, hairdo, and\u2026 hands.<\/p>\n<p>Like a novel COVID variant, the American Left is succumbing to a new \u2014 but very similar \u2014 virus: DeSantis Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The examples are endless.<\/p>\n<p>In response to DeSantis\u2019 ban on critical race theory, Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi asserted that the driving force behind his decision was \u201cwhite supremacist retaliation to an upsurge in Black liberation struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter from Vox observed that the governor was \u201csitting very strongly\u201d during a Fox News town hall.<\/p>\n<p>A purported high school classmate of DeSantis filmed a TikTok called \u201cI went to high school with Ron DeSantis here\u2019s why he sucks.\u201d In the words of Spencer Klavan, \u201chalf of this stuff\u201d \u2014 such as attempting to place administrators before a tribunal after they started a free and reduced lunch program \u2014 \u201cis honestly so based.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds more examples \u2014 conveniently chronicled by social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeSantisandCo\/status\/1411833772207661060\">pages<\/a> such as \u201cDeSantis Derangement Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine for DeSantis Derangement Syndrome has yet to be discovered. And the Left \u2014 which has no natural immunity to competent conservatives \u2014 does not have a prayer against the Florida Man.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American society is now largely defined by year-round political campaigning \u2014 so much so that many are already attempting to predict the outcomes of elections slated for three years down &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}