DeSantis Vs. Disney: How Can Ron Be So Dumb?

If Donald Trump made one, most serious mistake during his four-year term, it was his decision to create a public enemy out of Jeff Bezos because Bezos owned The Washington Post, which made him a singularly important target in Trump’s endless cacophony about ‘fake news.’

I’m sorry, but when you’re the President of a country whose 25-trillion national economy is overwhelmingly based on retail sales, you don’t go after the guy who did for retailing with his Amazon website what Bill Gates did for computing with his Windows app.

But now Trump has real competition in the dumbest category from Ron DeSantis, who has evidently decided to wrap his yet-to-be announced Presidential campaign around an attack on Disney and its Orlando theme park after Disney came out in opposition to the DeSantis anti-gay law.

Remember Anita Bryant? She’s still around but hasn’t been heard from in years. In 1977, she went after a Dade County ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual preference and got the law overturned. The statute was restored in 1998 and what Bryant really accomplished was to energize a national movement for gay rights.

Have there ever been any pop culture figures better known and more beloved than Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck? Try as I might, I just can’t see how anyone could assume that who…