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Ron DeSantis Needs to Make a Choice: ‘DehSantis’ or ‘DeeSantis’?

NAME CALLING

Not knowing how to pronounce one’s own name is weird, and may serve as a metaphor for deeper concerns about Ron DeSantis. Indeed, Donald Trump is already weaponizing it.

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“It’s the little things that kill”—at least, according to the ’90s British band Bush. Those post-grunge opening guitar chords always pop into my head whenever someone mentions the debate swirling around how to pronounce Ron

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