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His method is to convert resentment of corporate and educational elites into a governing programme. Unlike Trump, who trolled liberals on Twitter while also craving the establishment’s approval, DeSantis basks in their hatred. Where Trump is capricious, DeSantis is systematic. Last week he urged an investigation into Big Pharma, Pfizer and Moderna, for “wrongdoing” in overstating the efficacy of their vaccines.His war on what he calls the “biomedical security state” began early in the pandemic. DeSantis is willing to use government’s coercive powers to quash private sector autonomy. Thus, he banned businesses from requiring proof of vaccination for customers entering their premises. This included cruise ships that provide such good tourist revenues for Florida and which were early Petri dishes of Covid-19.His actions horrified the scientific mainstream which pointed to tens of thousands of avoidable Covid deaths in Florida. But they were popular with blue-collar workers in whose name DeSantis said he was acting: unlike the professional classes, they could not do their jobs remotely. He depicts himself as a sword of vengeance against America’s “Faucian dystopia” after Anthony Fauci, the outgoing face of the medical establishment. Ditto in his contempt for supposed corporate virtue signalling on clean energy.
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