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Vanity Fair columnist and famed literary nepo Molly Jong-Fast compared the immensely popular Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the assassination of Mongolian warlord Ghengis Khan in a recent article.
He column, which was filed Thursday, called DeSantis “just as dangerous to democracy” as former President Donald Trump. It was headlined, ‘Ron DeSantis Shouldn’t Be Covered Like Every Other Republican.’
Jong-Fast describes DeSantis as as potent a threat as Trump, albeit for somewhat different reasons.
While DeSantis is “like Shakespeare compared to the former president,” he is “the Ghengis Khan of social issues.”
Molly Jong Fast, the daughter of popular novelist Erica Jong, became a political pundit during the Trump years and is now sounding the alarm about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis, who has yet to join the presidential primary race, recently established several new education funding policy measures in Florida that ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory and eliminate funding for Diversity, Equity initiatives and Inclusion.
Trump’s campaign and time in office seriously damaged and endangered democracy, according to Jong-Fast and his fellow class experts. But anyone who thought terrified leftist writing and podcasting would stop just because DeSantis is “a little less disgusting” and “a little more coherent” than Trump is in for a rude awakening.
No, DeSantis should not be normalized under any circumstances either, Jong-Fast wrote.
“Calling DeSantis a culture warrior dangerously understates what the man is capable of. He is the Genghis Khan of social issues, he takes every opportunity to target and demonize groups that have already been attacked and demonized throughout history,” he wrote.
“Marginalizing vulnerable groups is a classic authoritarian trope, one that DeSantis seems to have up to date.”
Despite an earlier career as the Upper East Side bohemian-chic daughter of successful literary parents, Jong-Fast and her army of 1 million Twitter followers became as little pundit as she could during the Trump years.
outside her often written about The Upper East Side multi-million dollar apartment Jong-Fast is home to the constant stream of resistance philosophers on Twitter, who frequently take aim at conservatives.
As the presidential primary trail begins to heat up, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announcing earlier this week the first to officially throw her hat in the ring since Trump, Jong-Fast doesn’t so subtly suggest that it’s time to give DeSantis the old Trump deal.
Specifically, Jong-Fast points to DeSantis authoritatively (she writes ‘authoritative’) critical race theory being taught in Florida schools as evidence of its dangerous ways.
Last month, DeSantis announced that he would cut funding for all CRT and DEI programs at state universities, because education must be “based on real history” and the “real philosophy that has shaped Western civilization,” he said in that moment.
This policy, he writes, amounts to a “right-wing attack on education in Florida,” all in the service of the governor’s “brand.”
She’s even more turned off by the fact that DeSantis isn’t chasing “free press” approval, which he knows he’ll never get.
Ghengis Khan was a famous brutal Mongol emperor. He launched a series of successful military campaigns to conquer parts of China and Central Asia. He is believed that he is responsible for the death of some 40 million people. Jong Fast compared Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to him
DeSantis, once constantly criticized by mainstream journalists, has chosen not to engage with most mainstream outlets, which has puzzled and upset many members of the media.
Jong-Fast is the daughter of famed author Erica Jong, thanks to whom she has always flowed in literary circles in New York City and beyond.
In turn, Jong-Fast is baffled that her fellow senior writers and analysts would do anything but malign her policies and behavior.
‘That same free press that normalizes DeSantis? DeSantis seems to have little use for it, and even wants to make it easier to successfully sue news organizations, which could put a press freeze on it,” he wrote.
DeSantis has yet to officially enter the pool of potential Republican candidates for president in 2024. That fact, however, hasn’t stopped Jong Fast from promising its readers an equally hysterical round of upcoming coverage before 2024.
To end his piece, he dramatically declared: “We need to be unwavering in our coverage of our presidential campaign, while we’re still allowed to cover them.”