Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is crumbling under a mountain of criticism for his sinking campaign. Right now he’s travelling all over the country giving speeches and selling his book proclaiming he’s the greatest anti-woke warrior on the planet. This week he’s jetting off overseas, presumably to prove that he can meet with foreign leaders as an equal. Meanwhile, back in Florida, Ft Lauderdale is drowning and he hasn’t bothered to change his busy schedule to appear (even belatedly asking for an emergency federal emergency declaration from the road.) And he was terribly embarrassed by all but one of the Florida congressional delegations, some of whom are his former colleagues in the House, endorsing Donald Trump in a carefully choreographed roll-out over the course of a week. The NY Times’ Maggie Haberman notes that while all of this is true, it’s also true that DeSantis is being judged by the party and the press as a normal politician while Trump still gets graded on a curve. By that she means that DeSantis is taken at his word while Trump still benefits from the 2016 trope that the news media takes him literally but not seriously, while his supporters take him seriously but not literally. This does appear to be true. DeSantis is being closely scrutinized for his agenda while even after all this time people are still dismissing Trump’s outlandish statements. This is not to say that DeSantis doesn’t deserve it. In fashioning himself as “woke’s” most energetic antagonist, he’s made…