DeSantis Is No Trump Killer

Susan Glasser: “I’ve long been of the view that Donald Trump is something akin to a horror-movie monster—a Godzilla or a T. Rex, say—for the American political system. In such movies, it’s often not the puny humans who take out the monster; it’s another monster.”

“And in such a scenario it would seem to make perfect sense that only a Republican specifically engineered and optimized for the bizarre cult of GOP politics in 2024 would be the right candidate to do the job on Trump. But if that’s the theory of the case for Ron DeSantis, the forty-four-year-old governor of Florida, the events of Wednesday evening showed it’s still very much an unproven theory.”