It says a lot to me that when DeSantis was directly asked about a response to the criticism that the ad is homophobic, his reaction is to defend the use of the clips showing Trump making public comments supporting the LGBTQ community. It blows my mind that DeSantis seems to have this complete blind spot and inability to see his own inhumanity.
I’m reminded of when he was credibly accused by a detainee at Guantanamo Bay of practicing torture on the detainees there. A reporter asked DeSantis to comment on this accusation and DeSantis got immediately hostile and defensive and replied that there’s no way the detainee could remember something from 10+ years ago. But DeSantis never said: I don’t have that in me to do to another person, surely this accusation isn’t true. He said: you can’t prove it was me. That is not exactly a denial of cruelty.
We should hasten to limit this man’s influence and access to power.
It blows my mind that DeSantis seems to have this complete blind spot and inability to see his own inhumanity.
People (usually) don’t think, “I know the difference between right and wrong, and I’m going to choose wrong, because I want to be wrong and bad.” They think they are doing right and good things for the benefit of all people they judge to also be right and good.
That blind spot you refer to is what enables people like DeSantis to be so wrong. That blind spot comes first, and creates the wrongness second.
It says a lot to me that when DeSantis was directly asked about a response to the criticism that the ad is homophobic, his reaction is to defend the use of the clips showing Trump making public comments supporting the LGBTQ community. It blows my mind that DeSantis seems to have this complete blind spot and inability to see his own inhumanity.
I’m reminded of when he was credibly accused by a detainee at Guantanamo Bay of practicing torture on the detainees there. A reporter asked DeSantis to comment on this accusation and DeSantis got immediately hostile and defensive and replied that there’s no way the detainee could remember something from 10+ years ago. But DeSantis never said: I don’t have that in me to do to another person, surely this accusation isn’t true. He said: you can’t prove it was me. That is not exactly a denial of cruelty.
We should hasten to limit this man’s influence and access to power.
People (usually) don’t think, “I know the difference between right and wrong, and I’m going to choose wrong, because I want to be wrong and bad.” They think they are doing right and good things for the benefit of all people they judge to also be right and good.
That blind spot you refer to is what enables people like DeSantis to be so wrong. That blind spot comes first, and creates the wrongness second.