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After declaring Trump unique threat, some liberal media declare DeSantis even 'more dangerous'
Pundits have spent years insisting former President Trump is some sort of dangerous threat to the republic, but Gov. Ron DeSantis is regularly painted as even more sinister.
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Many mainstream media pundits have spent years insisting former President Trump is a dangerous threat to the republic, often comparing him to the worst people to ever walk the earth. But as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has emerged as a viable threat to lead the GOP presidential ticket in 2024, he’s regularly painted as even more sinister than Trump.
"For much of the establishment media today, there is a need to create a boogeyman out of whichever right-of-center politician is most likely to disrupt their preferred ideological vision," DePauw University journalism professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox News Digital.
"Trump made it easy for the progressive media to attack him as a threat to democracy, but even before that, the ideologically driven media made out George W. Bush, and presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney, of all people, as dangerous threats to the media's preferred order," McCall continued. "The left-of-center media is now going after DeSantis as a sort of preemptive strike to establish a narrative that can be continued should DeSantis emerge as the GOP nominee."
MSNBC’s David Jolly has repeatedly said DeSantis is "far more dangerous" than Trump, a notion that has emerged as the talking point du jour from the left. Jolly is a former Florida Republican congressman who has taken a sharp left turn in his politics, winning more MSNBC airtime in the process, and has been quoted in several outlet's pieces critical of DeSantis.
The HuffPost published an opinion piece bluntly headlined, "No one is more dangerous for the White House than Ron DeSantis — including Donald Trump," which said the Florida governor is "more informed, tactical and calculated, which makes him way more dangerous."
"Imagine Donald Trump, but with brains and savvy," Dustin Seibert wrote. "Imagine Trump, but with a stalwart dedication toward legislation that moves the country in a direction that should terrify most reasonable human beings."
Fox News contributor Joe Concha believes the attacks on DeSantis are coming for a pair of reasons.
"The first is that the media has a vested interest in Donald Trump being the GOP nominee because he's good for clicks and ratings," Concha told Fox News Digital.
"The second reason is many of them believe that DeSantis would be a stronger general election candidate than Trump, because he can attract independents, suburban women, disenfranchised Democrats, as we witnessed during his landslide victory in November," Concha continued. "If DeSantis is such a threat to democracy, how did he win so many Democratic counties in Florida?"
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