Nerd is a neutral descriptor for a type of person. I’m not putting down nerds, I’m putting down DeSantis, and I’m putting him down not because he is a nerd, but because he is a nerd who tried to present himself as a jock. If there is anything inherently critical in pointing out that he’s a nerd it is that the nerdliness is of the legal-bureacratic type that sometimes occurs when a nerd is severed by circumstance or shame from their life’s true interests.
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