Biden lies every bit as much as Trump, but he never stabs his party in the back the way the Narcissus known as DJT does. Charles C.W. Cooke:
Those on the American right who continue to doubt that Donald Trump will happily burn down anything that stands between himself and his desire to lose yet another election for the GOP would do well to note that, despite being engaged at present in nothing more consequential than a nascent shadow primary, he has already reached the point at which he is willing to sully the reputation of his home state of Florida in exchange for a mess of pottage. In a wildly misleading Truth Social post, published this morning, Trump cast Florida as being among “the worst in the Country” for “crime,” “Education,” “Health & Safety,” “Education & Childcare,” “Affordability,” and “COVID-19 Deaths.” “HARDLY GREATNESS THERE!” he concluded.
With friends like these . . .
Trump is wrong. And, worse still, not only is Trump wrong — he knows that he’s wrong. There is a reason that 850 people per day now elect to move to Florida — a number that, in 2021, included a certain Donald J. Trump — and it is not that the state is an ignorant, crime-ridden, impossibly expensive hellhole. On the contrary: Life is pretty good here. On Truth Social, Trump claimed that Florida is in the bottom-half of the country for education; per U.S. News and World Report, it actually ranks third overall and first in higher education. He claimed that Florida is “among the worst in the Country and on crime statistics”; it’s actually below the national average in both violent crime and property crime. He claimed that Florida is 50th in affordability; it’s actually 31st overall and eighth for retirees. Do you notice a pattern?
There are the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, and then the “party” of one — Trump. Take your pick and suffer the consequences.
