The main stream media repeatedly condemned basically all actions taken by President Trump before, during and after his Presidency with extremely negative media coverage. Now the main stream media has a new target which is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.
“No one is more dangerous for the White House than Ron DeSantis — including Donald Trump,” says MSNBC.
The main stream media has set out to demonize DeSantis but like Trump, if they take it too far, then the opposite may happen and end up garnering more support in his favor. According to a DePauw University journalism professor Jeffery McCall, “For much of the establishment media today, there is a need to create a boogeyman out of whichever right-of-center politician is most likely to disrupt their preferred ideological vision.”
“Trump made it easy for the progressive media to attack him as a threat to democracy, but even before that, the ideologically driven media made out George W. Bush, and presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney, of all people, as dangerous threats to the media’s preferred order,” he added.
“The left-of-center media is now going after DeSantis as a sort of preemptive strike to establish a narrative that can be continued should DeSantis emerge as the GOP nominee,” he concluded.
There are many examples of just how far the main stream media so-called journalists will go to paint DeSantis as this “boogeyman.” MSNBC columnist Ruth Ben-Ghiat claims DeSantis would “turn back the clock on social progress in America by silencing and disenfranchising tens of millions who don’t fit into Republicans’ white Christian vision for the nation,” and was so bold to claim, “Remember at the height of the pandemic, he invited policemen and others who didn’t want to submit to tyrannical mask mandates to come and be free in Florida,” as if that was wrong.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin recently said “He’s in the business of otherizing people. But what I will say: what scares me about Ron DeSantis is that he offers Trumpism without Trump. So those people so repelled by Donald Trump, and there are many people, won’t be as repelled by him, I think. And those manufactured culture issues seem to be very effective with that base, that particular base, and part of the Republican Party as well.”
Many other news outlets have claimed DeSantis as “far more dangerous” than Trump, the Huffington Post wrote an article with the headline “No one is more dangerous for the White House than Ron Desantis — including Donald Trump,” and many others followed suit with similar headlines.
Columnist Joe Concha told Fox New Digital his take on why DeSantis is really facing the onslaught of attacks, “The first is that the media has a vested interest in Donald Trump being the GOP nominee because he’s good for clicks and ratings.”
“The second reason is many of them believe that DeSantis would be a stronger general election candidate than Trump, because he can attract independents, suburban women, disenfranchised Democrats, as we witnessed during his landslide victory in November,” he argued. “If DeSantis is such a threat to democracy, how did he win so many Democratic counties in Florida?”