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Ron DeSantis’s Florida Is the Unsung Success Story of Coronavirus

Washington Examiner

Perhaps the best example of a large state succeeding amid this crisis is conservative Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida. Florida is larger in population than New York, more disproportionately elderly, visited by more potentially infected tourists, and (as of the last census) its population is more concentrated in urban areas. Yet somehow, in spite of all these disadvantages, Florida’s death rate from the coronavirus is roughly half that of the Empire State.

Trump’s Final Insult to His Supporters: Pardoning Bannon

Washington Examiner

Bannon is a Harvard educated Goldman Sachs alum who ran his own banking firm before becoming a Hollywood producer. He’s every bit as “elite” as the establishment Trump promised to dismantle. Some of Trump’s policies may show promise, but in his final hours, Trump once again proves that his base needs to let him descend to the ash heap of history while they find another hero.

Trump at the End

Washington Examiner

On his way out the door, Donald Trump made sure he would never lead his party again. He stood in the breach last Wednesday morning and uttered the worst words ever said by a president of this country when he urged the mob that had gathered to disrupt the certification of the November election.

McConnell’s Finest Hour

Washington Examiner

Hours after rioters had stormed the Capitol, McConnell took to the Senate chamber to say emphatically, “The United States Senate will not be intimidated…They tried to disrupt our democracy and they failed.” The nation needed to hear precisely that, coming from him, a close ally to Trump who was unwilling to cross the clear, bright line from politics into conduct truly destructive of our constitutional republican system. His words that day will be committed to history.

Horror on Capitol Hill

Washington Examiner

Immediately before the riot began, he told supporters at a rally on the National Mall not to “take it any longer” and to march on Congress. Rudy Giuliani called for “trial by combat.” This was demagoguery of the most grotesque kind. It should mark Trump with permanent disgrace, bring on him legal remedies, and disbar him from public life forever.