Like most Republicans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made no secret of his dislike of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s senior medical adviser. Now, he took the war with Fauci to a new level.
Just recently, his website started selling anti-Fauci merchandise, including koozies, hats, and T-shirts, demonstrating DeSantis’ contempt for the media’s favorite medical experts, and reminding people that his state did not comply with Fauci’s regulations last year.
One of the koozies wrote “How on earth can I drink beer with a mask?” This is a legend now comment DeSantis told reporters in February that some ordinary suspects were pitching because someone saw him not wearing a mask in the Super Bowl. On the other side is a photo of DeSantis opening his beer. One of the T-shirts has the outline of Florida with the words “Don’t Fauci My Florida” beside it.
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-Team DeSantis (@teamrondesantis) July 12, 2021
As usual, the product triggered DeSantis’ enemies on the left, including the Washington Post:
DeSantis sells “Don’t Fauci My Florida” merchandise because the new coronavirus cases are close to the highest in the country https://t.co/o6ynzwcHr9
-Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 14, 2021
…And MSNBC weird man Joy Reid:
Siri: Show me an ignorant ghoul… https://t.co/EtqkV3FM7z
-Joy-Ann (Democrats) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) July 14, 2021
Fauci is the core of the former President Trump’s coronavirus task force. Although the two often quarrel, he is in Very advantageous Past terms on how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, despite evidence On the contrary, it is dangerously reckless and irresponsible to criticize Florida’s radically different response to the pandemic at the same time, even if some Democrat critics of DeSantis recognition DeSantis may have done it right.
Last month, DeSantis Exploded Fauci pointed out, “I think through Fauci’s email now… it is obvious that a lot of these things are based on your guidance. This is not based on hard data.” During the festival last monthDeSantis told the crowd in Florida that the state “chooses freedom over’Fauciism’” and “transmitted a message to other states and other countries” [to] Open up your state, open up your school, let people live their lives, don’t let them wear masks. “
He also brought Lens In an interview with Fauci and Cuomo in June, Say “Select Cuomo [as a liberal hero], This guy has a lot of questions. Then they promoted Fauci to be basically a saint, but we have seen that Fauci was wrong in many different things, and apparently he was not honest with the American people about the origin of COVID. “
Although DeSantis has not officially announced his intention to run for re-election, all signs indicate that it is happening, and this product will only further speculate that he will eventually run for president in 2024 in addition to next year’s re-election.
As they said, stay tuned!
flashback: Fauci’s latest “believe in science” argument is inconsistent with his last argument
