Joy Reid Laments How Ron DeSantis Torched Florida Then Lost

It's only Tuesday, but this week's Don't Sugarcoat It Award has already been won, by former Floridian Joy Ann Reid.

JOY ANN REID: I think we must remark upon the absolute tragedy of Ron DeSantis.

As a human being and as a politician, and I say this as somebody who spent 14 years in the great state of Florida, this man torched the state of Florida's education system by turning it into a grand apologist for slavery.

He passed a six-week abortion ban that he signed at midnight so that no one could see him do it, to match Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, in essentially condemning rape victims and incest victims to give birth at 10 years old, if that's what it takes, in order to get evangelicals to like him.

All the things he did, he completely took the Republican Tallahassee entire Senate and House delegations, put them in his service, they had to essentially work for him, and they passed everything he asked them for, for one reason only, because he was going to win Iowa.

He put it all on Iowa. His whole ground game is Iowa. His whole strategy is Iowa.

And he destroyed his political career in his home state, neglected his home state during two hurricanes, wore weird high boots, and humiliated himself when he finally ran home to pretend that he was going to help his state and neglected it.

The highest insurance rates, it's impossible to get insurance in the state.

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