If the humiliation of early withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination to the White House was not enough, for the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, there is also that of having apparently stumbled, at the moment of saying goodbye to dreams of glory, in a fake quote -or at least dubious - of one of the many phrases credited, rightly or wrongly, to the eloquent oratory talent of WinstonChurchill.
"Success is not definitive, failure is not fatal, what counts is courage", wrote DeSantis on social media on the sidelines of the announcement of his step backwards (which benefits the very favorite Donald Trump).
Phrase attributed precisely to the conservative prime minister who was the protagonist of the victory over Nazism.
But according to Otto English, British hunter of alleged historical hoaxes, he actually has nothing to do with Sir Winston.
The phrase, as English (pseudonym used in his writings by Andrew Scott, journalist, polemicist and author of books on the "myths" of history) replied on the web, would be nothing more than a banal slogan, dating back "to 1938", of one of the advertising campaigns for the popular American beer Budweiser.
As the International Churchill Society seems to confirm, not able - it says - to trace this aphorism in the endless myriad (around 50 million words) of sayings, speeches, books or articles signed by the Prime Minister of the Second World War in 60 years and more of his life public.
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