Chris Rufo, a rightwing culture-war celebrity and close Ron DeSantis ally, has maintained a close relationship with IM-1776, a ādissident rightā magazine that regularly showers praise on dictators and authoritarians, puffs racist ideologues, and attacks liberal democracy.
The outletās editors and writers ā many of them so-called āanonsā working under pseudonyms ā have variously advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act; celebrated figures such as the āUnabomberā Ted Kaczynski and the proto-fascist Italian nationalist Gabriele DāAnnunzio; and advanced conspiracy theories about the Covid pandemic, and what they term the āregimeā, a leftist power structure that they imagine unites the state, large corporations, universities and the media.
Okay, so who should the media ask the hard questions to if not people like state governors? I donāt understand why you think a non-answer is a non-story. Not responding to ādo you support terrorismā is, in itself, a story.
But I really want to know who you think the media should ask hard questions to.
The media should ask hard questions to the people that arenāt going to just ignore or deflect them obviously, maybe they should ask Donald Trump some harder questions, because Donnie is going to talk whether you want him to or not.
There are a whole slew of folks that the media would be better suited at going after than DeSantis, but there are also other folks similar to DeSantis that still shouldnāt be ignored, especially the ones that are more vulnerable than DeSantis is.The only people that should be asking DeSantis questions are the ones he canāt lie to, he canāt deflect on, and thatās something like the FBI.
Also again we all know the answer about DeSantis supporting terrorism, that answer is yes, hell CPAC sarcasticly admitted that they are domestic terrorists:
They know what they are and what theyāre doing, itās the naive folks who donāt realize wonāt care, and their supporters who definitely donāt care, and no journalist asking questions is going to change those people.
Iāve got two DeSantis humpers in my life and there is nothing you can say to make them waver about Ron being the ābest governor in the USā because believe me, Iāve tried, they know heās a petty little tyrant, but thatās what they want, and itās pathetic and unAmerican, neither of these people can articulate why they like DeSantis, but Iām fairly certain itās rooted in racism and the way DeSantis attacks his detractors. I know this because one of these people also admitted to being a Klandice Owens fan, and his fandom for her was summed up by him as "I like it when she āgets themāā as in he likes it when Klandice gish gallops and attacks people on her show. They like the outrage and theyāre attracted to it and the drama like moths to flame.
DeSantis should be thoroughly reported on, but again, I wouldnāt waste my time asking questions, heās not going to answer, but he should be thoroughly covered by the press while not expecting to ever get an answer fromhim or his team.