The former president is coming for the Florida governor from the left and I think I need to lie down for a minute.
DeSantis has gotten several nicknames from Trump, including the clunky “Ron DeSanctimonious.” Nicknaming is usually afor Trump — see classics of the genre like “Little Marco” and “Low Energy Jeb” — but none of them have seemed to stick to DeSantis. I can only assume a late-night round of riffing at Mar-a-Lago gave us the newest iteration featured in Friday’s ad: “Ron DeSales Tax.”
Set to the tune of “Old MacDonald,” the ad hits DeSantis for supporting a national sales tax while in Congress. It’s thein as many weeks to focus on the issue, accurately noting that the middle class would feel the brunt of the 23% tax rate that it would instill. And it feels particularly gleeful in torching what was once far-right orthodoxy. Honestly, if you strip out the reference to “Biden’s inflation,” it could have been the masterwork of any Democratic campaign in a swing district.
In a pre-Trump world, that was absolutely the kind of nutty tax policy that was the provenance of the Freedom Caucus and members of the tea party movement. Looking atof the Fair Tax Act is like taking a peek at the members who would become the biggest supporters of the MAGA movement in Congress, among them several who would later go on to serve in the Trump administration: Mike Pompeo, who
in April, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.A pro-DeSantis super PAC hit back at last week’s ad with a
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