Every time there’s a bout of bad news out of Florida regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the media work itself into a tizzy to try and pin everything on Gov. Ron DeSantis and make him out to be some sort of villain.

Here are just a few examples: MSNBC’s Dean Obeidallah claimed Florida’s children are “less safe” because DeSantis “wants to be president some day.” CNN declared DeSantis’s decision not to reimpose lockdown restrictions on his state is a “reckless experiment” that could “yield some alarming results.” The Los Angeles Times’s Harry Litman alleged DeSantis’s opposition to school mask mandates is “borderline criminal behavior.” CNN’s Jim Acosta even suggested changing the name of the delta variant to the “DeSantis variant.”