Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, where today you get to read me and my billionaire-tracking B.F.F. Teddy Schleifer as we report on two facets of the Ron DeSantis insurgency: his money machine whirring to life at the Miami Four Seasons, and his online mercenary troll army crashing Elon Musk’s Twitter Space. Call it the DeSantis DeDouble DeFeature—the kind of reporting you’ll only find at Puck. (Seriously, we dare you to find this elsewhere.)
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Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, where today you get to read me and my billionaire-tracking B.F.F. Teddy Schleifer as we report on two facets of the Ron DeSantis insurgency: his money machine whirring to life at the Miami Four Seasons, and his online mercenary troll army crashing Elon Musk’s Twitter Space. Call it the DeSantis DeDouble DeFeature—the kind of reporting you’ll only find at Puck. (Seriously, we dare you to find this elsewhere.)
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For months, I’d been hearing the same canard out of Trump’s camp when it came to DeSantis’s political future: he’s too online and his campaign thinks Twitter is the real world. Funny coming from MAGA world, which is itself very online, but it’s true that DeSantis and his political apparatus, in seeking to outflank Trump’s populism, seemingly took many of their cues and talking points from whatever acronyms were obsessing right wing social media: C.R.T. in schools, D.E.I. in the boardroom, L.G.B.T.Q., well, anywhere. Instead of fighting the mainstream media, like Trump, DeSantis has... |
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