Matthew Yglesias, Columnist

Who’s Worse, Trump or DeSantis? A Pointless Liberal Debate

Democrats are getting ahead of themselves with an insular argument over the possible Republican presidential nominee.

March 5, 2023 at 1:00 PM UTC

Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A co-founder of and former columnist for Vox, he writes the Slow Boring blog and newsletter. He is author of “One Billion Americans.”

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As the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign edges ever closer to reality, liberal fears of a DeSantis presidency are getting ever more detached from it. Is he just as bad as Donald Trump? Or even worse? And is it OK to scold your fellow liberals for jumping to conclusions about DeSantis? Or are the scoldings themselves premature?

Pondering all this, I have a radical suggestion: Why not exercise some patience and, you know, wait and see what happens?