Difference between right and Ron: DeSantis miscalculates
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The Economist
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Florida’s governor has made a headline-grabbing rightward lurch as part of a presumed bid for the White House. But both Mr DeSantis’s critics and his donors are starting to think he has overplayed his hand. Our correspondent finds that jihadist violence has, as was long feared, come to Burkina Faso. And rural America’s love affair with Japan’s tiny Kei trucks.
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| 0:00.0 | The infrastructure we plan today, we're going to have to live with for the next half century, |
| 0:05.0 | or even longer. |
| 0:06.0 | There's an urgency about the choices we make. |
| 0:09.0 | It's never been more important to consider infrastructure for good. |
| 0:13.0 | Discover how infrastructure can provide transformative benefits to society, |
| 0:18.0 | and improve quality of life for all. |
| 0:20.0 | Listen to the podcast series Infrastructure for Good by Economist Impact. |
| 0:24.0 | Visit infrastructure-4-good.economist.com |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm Aurea Okimbi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:48.0 | The Sahel, just south of the Sahara Desert, has long been threatened by jihadist insurgencies. |
| 0:56.0 | As seemed inevitable, the terror has now come to Brachina Faso, costing 3,000 lives already this year. |
| 1:03.0 | Our correspondent pays a visit. |
| 1:06.0 | And K-Cars are taking rural America by storm. |
| 1:11.0 | They're pretty cheap and weigh a fifth of a typical Ford pickup truck. |
| 1:16.0 | But with their increasing popularity, comes new competition for American car makers |
| 1:21.0 | and some legitimate questions about their safety. |
| 1:28.0 | But first... |
| 1:37.0 | Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, is the most talked about opponent to Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. |
| 1:45.0 | He hasn't officially launched his campaign for the White House, but he has raised over $100 million to help support a bid. |
| 1:52.0 | Along the way, Mr DeSantis is also picked some headline-grabbing fights, not least with Disney. |
| 1:59.0 | They've been treated much different than universal, sea world and all these other places. |
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