How Ron DeSantis Exploits His Ivy League Credentials To Play Victim
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You’d think, based on his imbecilic rhetoric that Ron DeSantis was some uneducated blue collar “goomba” and not a Yale and Harvard educated member of the very elite that he seems hellbent on waging war with. A recent New York Times’ profile uncovers the hypocrisy that defines DeSantis and how he’s trying to have it both ways in post-Trump American presidential politics.
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis nestled into his chair onstage in Naples, Fla., to explain to an audience of the would-be conservative elite his journey through the reigning liberal one they hoped to destroy. His host was Larry P. Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, a small Christian school in southern Michigan that has become an academic hub of the Trump-era right. His subject was Yale University, where Mr. DeSantis was educated and where, as he tells it, he first met the enemy.
“I’m a public school kid,” Mr. DeSantis told the audience, unspooling a story that he has shared in recent years with aides, friendly interviewers, donors, voters and readers of his memoir, “The Courage to Be Free.” “My mom was a nurse, my dad worked for a TV ratings company, installing the metering devices back then. And I show up in jean shorts and a T-shirt.” The outfit “did not go over well with the Andover and Groton kids” — sometimes it is Andover and Groton, sometimes it is Andover and Exeter, sometimes all three — who mocked his lack of polish.
