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The answer is too easy. It is, of course, Florida.

There is a reason why I was an avid supporter of Governor DeSantis in the primaries, and why I resented the MAGA attacks aimed at him when he was
running against President Trump.

Ron DeSantis is awesome, and even if you think Donald Trump is awesomer,
that is no reason to trash genuinely good people. The competition didn't
hurt Trump, and I was actually repelled by many of the puerile attacks
against him and Casey.

That's all water under the bridge, over the dam, or whatever metaphor you choose to say that the controversy is in the rear-view mirror. Now is the
time to look forward, and to reward conservatives who are kicking butt
outside the Beltway. DeSantis was a good soldier during the election, and
I hope he gets rewarded for it.


Florida used to be the ultimate swing state. Large, pretty evenly divided,
and filled with people who couldn't enthusiastically embrace either party.
It elected people like Charlie Crist, who was an oily snake-in-the-grass,
and nobody expected a dramatic short-term shift in the politics of the
state.

DeSantis barely squeaked through in the 2018 gubernatorial election,
winning by about 30,000 out of 8.2 million votes. If he were a normal politician who triangulated to stay safe, he would have been one of the
more vulnerable incumbents seeking reelection.


But Ron DeSantis is anything but a normal political animal who
triangulates to stay safe. He is smart, decisive, and isn't moved by
political winds. Not only that, he is remarkably competent, which seems to
be a rarity these days. Or perhaps ever, in politics.

During COVID, as governor after governor chose to "follow the [fake]
science," DeSantis reached out to actual scientists and epidemiologists to
get good advice. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of his key advisors, for instance, and as a result of his relentless curiosity and commitment to
doing what is right instead of what the establishment told him was the
"safe" thing to do, he crushed it while others utterly failed.

Time and again, DeSantis broke the mold, reshaping a broken electoral
system that couldn't get results in a reasonable time and making it one of
the most efficient in the country. When disasters strike, he gets results.

He has created, in his own and others' words, the "Free State of Florida,"
and people are flocking there. As much as I would like to credit ideology,
it is DeSantis' sheer competence that gives him the room to pursue
conservative ends. He takes care of business first, then fights the
ideological battles using the political capital he stores up by running
the state well.

The results are incredible, and I would move to Florida if it weren't so
darn humid.

DeSantis should do something about that.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/07/guess-which-state-is-1-in- higher-ed-and-economy-n3802492

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