Critics rip scathing Politico profile of Casey DeSantis as sexist, ‘shameful’By Selim Algar and Josh Christenson
May 19, 2023
Critics bashed an online profile Friday of the wife of expected presidential contender and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, calling the piece misogynistic and vicious.
The Politico article, “The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability,” quoted anonymous former DeSantis staffers, alleged insiders and Democratic strategists who accused the first lady of Florida of being “blindly ambitious” in an effort to help her husband become the next US president.
Gov. DeSantis is expected to announce his bid for the presidency next week.
The story labeled the 42-year-old former Jacksonville TV anchor, breast-cancer survivor and mom of three “paranoid” and “vindictive” while quoting a male DeSantis supporter who said she needed to “take a more traditional role’’ and a Trump operative who called her similar to “Lady MacBeth.”
“If you’re a Democrat and a woman, you’re ‘fierce’ or an ‘unapologetic’ or whatever,” a senior DeSantis adviser raged to The Post. “If you’re a Republican or a conservative, you turn into a cartoon villainess.
“The double standard is shameful. And the people who do this are always the most outspoken feminists on Twitter.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/critics-rip-profile-of-casey-desantis-as-sexist-shameful/