msnbc‘s mehdi hasan on Sunday he called the governor of Florida. ron desantisa 2024 Republican presidential candidate, for his latest “see-through speech” to win over evangelical Christian voters.
during a interview with Christian Broadcasting Network Last week, DeSantis said that he would like to have been among the original disciples of Jesus Christ.
“All these guys went out and dedicated their lives to spreading the gospel,” DeSantis said. “I look back and I would love to have been able to be there with them.”
Hasan couldn’t get over the “sheer arrogance” of that statement from a Republican.
“Imagine for a second if along with Peter, John, James and company, there had been a Ron,” he said, and then imagined what that might have been like:
A Ron that every time Jesus helped the poor and used loaves of bread and fish to feed the hungry, Ron would say, “You’re too awake, Jesus. You are too awake. Let them get up on their own.” Every time Jesus said, “I don’t know, we should embrace refugees and migrants.” Ron said, “Stop all the waking up, Jesus. Send them to Martha’s Vineyard. The Holy Land is where the awakening goes to die.
“The truth is that the Jesus of the gospels and his disciples were too far to the left for Ronald DeSantis,” Hasan told another MSNBC host. Ayman Mohyeldin.
Mohyeldin said DeSantis went from worshiping to ‘cult leader’ donald trump to compete against him for the presidential nomination, and that could make the ex-president’s supporters view him as a very specific disciple.
“He was probably more of a Judas than a Peter,” Mohyeldin said. “Even donald trump has noticed this betrayal.
He played a clip of Trump criticizing DeSantis as “disloyal.”
“Call me crazy, but at the end of the day, I’m not so sure that positioning yourself as a Judas in the eyes of the Trump cult is the way to win over the faithful,” he said with a laugh.
See more of their exchange below:
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