How Ron DeSantis can win

Hint: Not by trying to out-Trump Trump

FIRST OF TWO PARTS

Two years ago, Ron DeSantis was as much of a hero to me as any politician had ever been.

Other leaders had bent the knee to the health authoritarians who pretended Covid was the plague. Not DeSantis. He locked down late, then reopened almost immediately. He fought teachers unions and county executives to open schools and end mask mandat…