Reasonable moderate centrist Elon Musk to host Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid announcement

I guess it’s fitting that two men who have spent the last several months immolating their previous reputations — such as they were — should join forces for this very special episode of America’s Got Fascists:

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is planning to announce the start of his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday in a live audio conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, the platform’s polarizing owner, according to people with knowledge of his plans.

Mr. DeSantis’s entry into the Republican primary race against former President Donald J. Trump has been widely expected, but the decision to do so with Mr. Musk adds a surprising element and gives Mr. DeSantis access to a large audience online. NBC News first reported the plans.

The event on Twitter Spaces, which is planned for 6 p.m. Eastern, injects a level of risk into a rollout that is expected to be carefully scripted and ensures that Mr. DeSantis’s first impression as a presidential candidate will be aligning himself with Mr. Musk, an eccentric businessman who has ranked at times as the world’s richest man.

Describing Musk as an “eccentric businessman” reminds of how back in 1992 somebody who had known Ross Perot for a long time said that the difference between eccentric and crazy was in this case about two billion dollars (Needless to say the Lords of the Plutocracy have moved on to bigger and better dollar figures since then).

I’ve written before about I can’t see how DeSantis announcing a presidential run at this time makes any sense, and I won’t repeat those arguments. Somebody or the other’s razor suggests that the explanation in cases of this sort is generally a sociopathic level of narcissism. Although it’s going to be difficult for DeSantis to trump his main competitor in that particular department.

Thanks folks I’ll be here all week.