Ron DeSantis is Donald Trump’s and the coronavirus’s favourite governor

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While the Trump administration has floundered against covid-19, most governors have stepped up. There is one glaring exception

dictum that good governance comes “not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution” has never looked more apposite. While the administration has floundered against the coronavirus, most state governors have stepped up.

The image of American hubris against the coronavirus is of Florida’s beaches packed with Spring Breakers. Mr DeSantis had refused to close them—thereby drawing instant comparisons with the mayor of Amity Island in the “Jaws” films. A heat map of the cell-phone signals emitted by a crowd of fun-seekers on Fort Lauderdale beach—almost two months after America had recorded its first coronavirus case—suggests they have since fanned out all across America.

Mr DeSantis meanwhile aped the president’s histrionics by ordering senseless roadblocks to catch infected New Yorkers, warning cruise ships not to land sick “foreigners” and lambasting critical journalists. In one way, his tactics worked. Where Mr Cuomo claims to have received a fraction of the medical supplies he has requested from the federal government, Florida has got every mask and ventilator it has asked for. Even so, Mr DeSantis’s pandemic response has looked increasingly reckless.

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