Freepers, please help me out with interpreting some recent political history. As I recall Ron DeSantis briefly surpassed Donald Trump as favourite for the 2024 GOP nomination after DeSantis condemned Australia as being "off the rails" and like communist China. Desantis' comments came at about the same time that Catholic former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott described Victoria Police in Melbourne, Australia, as being “……. lined up like stormtroopers …….” to stop a peaceful protest by “people who are sick and tired of (lockdown) restrictions which frankly are now becoming absolutely unreasonable”. Who else sees a connection here? I may...