Three days before the midterms, the New York Times published the results of some digging into the long-ago past of Ron DeSantis.
The result: When he was a history teacher at a boarding school 20 years ago – this was after he graduated from Yale and before he went to Harvard Law – a few students didn’t like him.
Seriously? Is this the best the Times could come up with on the Florida governor and possible 2024 candidate?
When DeSantis taught at Darlington School, where he also coached football and baseball, he was popular and widely considered cool, according to the piece (though I will say he had an awful haircut).
But "as a teacher, he was remembered by some former students as cocky and arrogant. He once publicly embarrassed a student with a prank." Gasp.
Later in the story, one Black student was quoted as saying DeSantis "‘was mean to me and hostile toward me. Not aggressively, but passively, because I was Black.’ She recalled Mr. DeSantis teaching Civil War history in a way that sounded to her like an attempt to justify slavery."
But a white student in the same class said DeSantis "wasn’t so much politically opinionated" but "factually wrong," such as falsely claiming that every southern city was burned during the war. Another student said they "talked among themselves about Mr. DeSantis expressing his strict belief that abortion was wrong."
Oh, and "several students described Mr. DeSantis as having an air of superiority."
So let’s see: He was smug and voiced more personal opinions than would have been appropriate for a teacher. Doesn’t even sound as damaging as Mitt Romney strapping his dog to the roof of the car.
https://www.foxnews.com/shows/media-buzz/media-keep-hurling-oppo-desantis-lake-walker-heres-why-may-not-matter
