Pepperidge Farm remembers when DeSantis was "surprisingly reasonable", "one of the best Republican Governors", a lock for re-election in 2022, and presidential material.
All of these things are no more or less true than they were a year ago. Politicos live and die by incredibly short news cycles. Any governor's COVID-19 performance is not going to be driving the 2024 or 2028 election cycle.
As much as Americans tend to have short attention spans, I don’t think his handling of COVID-19 is going to be easily forgotten like a typical scandal. I was simply pointing out that the praise people piled on him (including from Democrats) when he was a couple of months into his term was a bit premature.
