These are the lengths people take projection to!
…when Guy, the menswear writer, watched a video of DeSantis cycling through four different facial expressions in about three seconds during a news conference, he saw something even more disturbing.
“Oh, God,” he remembers saying to himself. “That’s me.”
The governor’s anti-charisma — his apparent struggles to make small talk, his propensity for letting a smile fall too quickly from his face — reminded Guy of himself at parties. Or the time he had no idea what to say after a fan of his fashion writing recognized him at a tailoring shop.
“It was exactly like those DeSantis moments,” he said. “A normal human being would understand how to light up your face, how to engage, how to say the right thing. But DeSantis doesn’t have that. And I definitely don’t have that.”
Guy is not the only awkward American who has identified with DeSantis as he has emerged as the Awkward Candidate.
“Like Ron DeSantis, I spend every day trying to act like a human,” said Michelle Witherspoon, an environmental consultant in California.
There is no more awkward person at a party me. I don’t want someone who has my social anxiety to be president. These people do! There used to be a time when we wanted to admire our presidents as a BETTER version of ourselves. Obviously that time has passed.