It's only Tuesday, but this week's Don't Sugarcoat It Award has already been won, by former Floridian Joy Ann Reid.
JOY ANN REID: I think we must remark upon the absolute tragedy of Ron DeSantis.
As a human being and as a politician, and I say this as somebody who spent 14 years in the great state of Florida, this man torched the state of Florida's education system by turning it into a grand apologist for slavery.
He passed a six-week abortion ban that he signed at midnight so that no one could see him do it, to match Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, in essentially condemning rape victims and incest victims to give birth at 10 years old, if that's what it takes, in order to get evangelicals to like him.
All the things he did, he completely took the Republican Tallahassee entire Senate and House delegations, put them in his service, they had to essentially work for him, and they passed everything he asked them for, for one reason only, because he was going to win Iowa.
He put it all on Iowa. His whole ground game is Iowa. His whole strategy is Iowa.
And he destroyed his political career in his home state, neglected his home state during two hurricanes, wore weird high boots, and humiliated himself when he finally ran home to pretend that he was going to help his state and neglected it.
The highest insurance rates, it's impossible to get insurance in the state.
Workers are leaving, his Latino workers, Hispanic workers are leaving because of draconian immigration law that his Republicans passed for him. It's hurting the agriculture industry, the construction industry.
He's ruined the state, made it an anathema for business.
He sued Disney, put himself at war with Mickey Mouse, and lost and got humiliated by them.
What has he not done that was stupid politically, all for one purpose?
He did the ad where he said "God created a fighter" to get evangelicals to love him.
And he's going to finish maybe in the 15s, maybe in the 20s in Iowa. And he's finished as a politician in Florida as a result.
CHRIS HAYES: Also, what Rachel said, of course, he has moved his whole operation to Iowa. It's like, all right, the dude's still governor! Like, it's so wild that that's the case. Like, he's moved to, and he's making jokes about it. He said it's like a setup for a sitcom. Florida family moves to, like, Iowa in the middle of the, like, cold snap. And it's like, right, you are, like, still the, like, you know, it's one thing, I think Lawrence will agree with me, it's one thing to be a senator and do that. Or, like, you fly back to D.C., whatever. But, like, you know, Florida's a big state. Managing the state is some work. And it's pretty wild that he has also just taken leave of this incredibly important job, by and large, for months.
RACHEL MADDOW: While the Florida Republican Party has just had to forcibly oust its state Republican Party chairman for the worst possible reasons, Google it.
