DeSantis says he’s 5’11” which is above the average height for a White male is 5’10”, so I’m not sure what he would be insecure about unless he’s not telling the truth about his actual height.
He’s saying his current height is 5’ 11”.
If you search, desanctimonious is said to be 5’ 9” in many articles from 2021-2022 and earlier...
This is completely a self-inflicted wound.
To me, I the the boot kerfuffle is just silly, but the bigger issue is that it expresses a degree of inauthenticity and other personality related items.
It just reeks of being politically animalistic, which I find repellent. What Clinton and Obama were, and what Reagan and Trump were not, IMO.