Funny how these tough guy strutting Trumpers are absolutely TERRIFIED of saying anything that might upset the snowflakes in their own base.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1472586019077767170
"I'm a straight shooter, not a normal politician who just says things voters want to hear, and also I won't answer a simple question about whether I did what every medical professional advises which is to get a basic booster shot."
Many have argued that Trump was a monster of the GOP/Dr. Frankenstein's own making, but it just now occurs to me that people like DeSantis and Trump are vulnerable to being consumed by that monster too. Remember when Trump got booed for talking positively about vaccines?
It strikes me that a good chunk of the history of GOP leadership since the 90s has been people saying "I will ride these dark energies into power and then say 'this is where it stops,'" but then realizing those energies they'd just stoked were more powerful than they were.
Ron DeSantis is a graduate of Harvard University. He knows what science is. He knows vaccines work and that boosters help. If you're too terrified of your voters to just state basic scientific facts, what does that say about what you think of/know about your voters?
Like many an American tough guy has said, "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." He wasn't asked if boosters should be mandated, he was only asked if he himself had done the responsible thing and gotten it. It's called leading by example.
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