I figured out who DeSantis reminds me of.
He's that mean weird kid who followed the bullies around in middle school, hoping that they would include him.
The bullies used him as a tool to pick on their enemies. There was nothing he wouldn't do in his pathetic and futile attempt to be included, no cruelty too extreme, no self-debasement too far. In the end nobody liked him. The bullies thought he was pathetic and excluded him from their inner circle. Everybody else loathed him.
He didn't recognize any of that. He sniggered and giggled and acted conceited, and when he got caught doing mean stupid things he whined and blamed others.
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the proverbial face born to punch?
If so, I'm standing in line.
Never fails.
Really, do we need to use photoshop to make this guy look stupid?
No, we don’t. 
He makes Randy Rainbow look like a macho guy 
The way he speaks, his wardrobe choices, and of course, his policies, typical of frustrated closeted gay people.
I do...even though, there are Blacks who are pro-white Supremacy, and Jews who do antisemitic work, - like Stephen Miller for example
Paternalist religions do promote homophobia. It's true. And this impacts millions of people.
I agree, just as you agree that closeted people are self loathing.
Paternalism, and homophobia are tenets of fascism (Check out the book "How Fascism Works", by Jason Stanley). And I do believe there is a sexual component in fascism, along with narcissism and hiding behind a false self. Check out Nazi history of Roehm and the SA, and what Hitler did to them.
Finally, we are not talking about people (like Trump or others) being GAY. We are talking about them being self-loathing homophobes, which is totally different.
As for Trump, as opposed to De Santis, he has no ideology except being praised and receiving $$ from people he is disgusted by...as for his attitude with LGBTQ people, here is an article of interest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html
I have a longtime friend who taught at a Catholic school her entire career in a right-to-work state.
She is married to a woman, but she never was “open” because of her job. I can assure you that she is not self-loathing.
This nonsense about every Republican being gay is just that, nonsense. 
The never ending “Putin is gay, tfg is gay, DeSantis is gay, Gaetz is gay, Graham is gay.”
Sick to death of it.
(link) https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/19/casey-ron-desantis-wife-profile-00097456
For nearly as long, too, though, others who have worked with her or around her have nodded more quietly to the downsides of the starring part that she plays. She is and always has been by far his most important adviser, they say, because she is hesitant to cede that space to nearly anybody else. The DeSantis inner circle is too small and remains so, they say, not only because he constitutionally doesn’t trust people but because she doesn’t either. Especially forthright are the people who are granted anonymity on account of their fear of retribution given their power — not just his but hers. “She’s the power behind the throne,” a Republican lobbyist told me. “The tip of the spear,” said a Republican consultant. She is, they say, in the middle of good decisions of his, but bad ones, too. One in particular during the first year of his administration struck many then as a shortsighted miscalculation and looks to them now like a possibly fatal mistake — the ouster of Susie Wiles, the well-respected operative who had helped former President Donald Trump win Florida in 2016, and then helped DeSantis, 44, get elected governor in 2018 but now is running Donald Trump’s rival White House bid.
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Like Grover Dill in A Christmas Story
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