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Mon Feb 27, 2023, 07:53 AM Feb 2023

The New York Times review the new book for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R): [View all]

A Culture War Mad Libs
February 27, 2023 at 6:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments

The New York Times review the new book for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R):

https://politicalwire.com/2023/02/27/a-culture-war-mad-libs/

"SNIP.........

“As governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has been casting himself as a Trump-like pugilist. But the overall sense you get from reading his new memoir is that of the mechanical try-hard — someone who has expended a lot of effort studying which way the wind is blowing in the Republican Party and is learning how to comport himself accordingly.”

“Not that he admits any of this, peppering The Courage to Be Free with frequent eruptions about ‘the legacy media’ and ‘runaway wokeness.’ But all the culture war Mad Libs can’t distract from the dull coldness at this book’s core…”

“For the most part, The Courage to Be Free is courageously free of anything that resembles charisma, or a discernible sense of humor. While his first book was weird and esoteric enough to have obviously been written by a human, this one reads like a politician’s memoir churned out by ChatGPT.”

........SNIP"

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