Let us check in briefly with onetime presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, who is currently in the final year of his term as Florida governor. DeSantis was once inescapable in national media thanks to an extremely heterodox COVID-19 policy, which briefly ushered him into the front of the GOP pack vying for Donald Trump’s heirship. (We all remember how that turned out.) These days, DeSantis is largely out of the picture. So what’s he been up to? Is he plotting revenge? Is he still smarting from the swift curtailing of his electoral prospects? No, not at all. According to his account on X, DeSantis is spending his waning months in public office driving around Florida and dining at local hot spots, in his own low-rent version of the Food Network.
