Share Tweet Americans who gather their news exclusively via the national media and through various social media platforms might genuinely believe that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is among the worst public officials in the country. Ever since DeSantis won a surprise victory over their preferred candidate, then proceeded to rack up astoundingly strong public approval ratings in a key battleground state, journalists and other leftists have been fanatically determined to take him down. They've used the pandemic as an opportunity to do so, relentlessly casting him as a reckless villain from the get-go -- even when the empirical data showed that Florida was, if anything, a national success story, especially compared to the waking nightmare in New York. An