Withdrawn DeSantis: GOP presidential candidate is a disaster, but a dangerous one

The Ron DeSantis campaign for president began with a whimper, or rather, a glitch. A Twitter Spaces announcement with Elon Musk failed repeatedly to function for the first 20 minutes, and those heading to DeSantis’ own website were met with something that looked like a high school project done over lunch. The botched rollout neatly encapsulated everything that DeSantis is: an ideologue whose commitment to sing and dance for the Republican base comes at the cost of actual managerial capability, and who at the end of the day isn’t even particularly good at the song and dance. It’s almost certain...