@barney@mas.to @augieray @danvanmoll

None of that, except your last paragraph(I currently live in FL and that's not why he was reelected), is wrong. DeSantis won because, one, Floridians LOVE him and, two, the Democratic Party is almost non-existent here. People outside of Florida, particularly outside of the south, have a hard time understanding it, but him and people like Gaetz are ridiculously popular down here. Over 70% of people in the county in which I live voted for DeSantis. They LOVE him more than any politician in the world.

Now, that part of politics aside, tell me what Biden has done to make it better? He didn't help by saying it was over. I'm honestly grasping at straws trying to figure out something I can praise him for here. By multiple accounts that I've read even the First Lady apparently thinks he's lost his mind on COVID policy and doesn't take it seriously enough.

Or the CDC? Walensky didn't help by calling masks the scarlet letter of the pandemic, or sticking to the bogus green maps, etc.

On and on.

Democrats have had two years to make it better and haven't is all I'm saying. They've capitulated and given room to the right wingers to deny and minimize by *going along* with it, mostly via silence. That shouldn't get them parades and awards. Over 700 people a day above the previous baseline died in the US in 2022.

They're not doing a good job.

I'n going to try to declare nuance again here. Not a single thing Republicans have done has been good. No one is arguing that. But give me the giant list of great things that Democrats are doing right now that they deserve credit for.