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Don’t assume that DeSantis is a safe alternative to Trump
Precisely because the Florida governor is not a natural fit with Maga voters, he tries dangerously hard to please them
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (right) is abler and more disciplined than former US president Donald Trump, says the writer.
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Janan Ganesh
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Mr Boris Johnson didn’t start the fire. It was Mrs Theresa May, his predecessor as UK prime minister,
It was Mrs May who gave some bellicose advisers the run of Downing Street. It was Mrs May who equivocated when High Court judges were under tabloid siege. Much of the civic and economic rot in the United Kingdom can be traced back to a prime minister who now plays the elder stateswoman, forever tutting at her errant successors.
