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DeSantis: Someone needs to grab that little elf Fauci and chuck him across the river HotAir

But I do think this points to another problem with DeSantis. If, like me, you re dreaming of a post-Trump GOP, having the guy who s most likely to deliver that post-Trump future ranting about chucking Fauci into a river or whatever feels decidedly not post-Trump. It feels Trump. In fact, that s probably unfair to Trump as I ve never heard him say something as lowbrow as this about Fauci.

What really distinguishes DeSantis from Trump isn t that one guy is willing to grandstand insultingly about his opponents while the other isn t. It s that, when DeSantis grandstands insultingly, he pairs it with lucid criticism. His point here about Fauci shrugging off the damage to children from school closures is entirely right, as I noted myself last night.

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