Bo and Ben discuss Covid hypocrisy in the media. Andrew Cuomo was lionized for months, a champion of the scientifically minded left, a smooth, calming, honest communicator, a hero. Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, was denounced as a cavalier science-denier. But Florida’s numbers are much better than New York’s, and Cuomo has been mired in a scandal about not disclosing deaths from nursing homes.

Then they discuss some prominent Republicans: Kristi Noem, Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton, and the aforementioned Ron DeSantis. Who is the frontrunner for 2024? Does Ben Sasse, the most anti-Trump Republican in the Senate, have a chance? Is DeSantis the surprising choice for 2024?

Last, they discuss Ezra Klein and Kevin Williamson’s disagreement about the causes of California’s problems. Klein believes that California is superficially progressive, but operationally conservative. Williamson rejects this, seeing California as exactly what one gets with progressivism.

Cuomo and media hypocrisy: https://www.foxnews.com/media/mainstream-media-blatant-hypocrisy-ignoring-sexual-harassment-allegations-cuomo

Cuomo and Covid: https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/26/cuomos-nursing-home-fiasco-ethical-perils-pandemic-policymaking/

Cuomo and DeSantis: https://www.mycouriertribune.com/commentary-press-swapped-script-on-cuomo-vs-desantis/article_f00f0f24-77ae-11eb-bc06-33c8e3f56cc8.html

DeSantis and Covid: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article249521800.html

Ezra Klein on California: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/california-san-francisco-schools.html

Kevin Williamson on California: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/ezra-klein-misapprehends-californias-problems/