All up and down American politics, people are immiserated and brutalized and even killed by the state both as a matter of course and as an electoral strategy. Everyone understands this; the signal disagreement in our awful and abstracted politics comes down to how people feel about it. The shape of that question’s expression changes […]
Ron DeSantis is actually incapable of smiling but has practiced grimacing so much that it appears like smiling. Except his mouth is the only part that moves. He’s like a bad actor who only emotes with one part of his body, his face, that he doesn’t have enough brain power to replicate that fake emotion across his whole body. So the end result is one part emotion and three parts dumb schlub.
Ron DeSantis is actually incapable of smiling but has practiced grimacing so much that it appears like smiling. Except his mouth is the only part that moves. He’s like a bad actor who only emotes with one part of his body, his face, that he doesn’t have enough brain power to replicate that fake emotion across his whole body. So the end result is one part emotion and three parts dumb schlub.