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Ron Desantis: Príncipe de la muerte.

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Rebekah Jones
Feb 26, 2021
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Depending on who you ask, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is either the martyr for MAGA or a COVID-19 mass murderer. 

That dichotomy feeds the divisiveness of COVID-19 in Florida, which has led to violent altercations about wearing masks and confusion over each locality’s right to enforce their own mask mandates.

DeSantis has been hailed recently by political commentators making outrageous claims about his “stock rising” as the next great republican leader, despite the trail of death and despair he leaves behind.

So why the opining of DeSantis in far-right circles, where DeSantis has made enemies in the past for his occasionally progressive approach to environmental issues (though that group doesn’t show much love for DeSantis’ mixed record on ecological conservation issues)?

Few governors have a worse track record on COVID-19 than DeSantis. Even New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, recently in the news for how the state chose to misleadingly re-classify nursing home deaths, fared better than De…

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