Teen booted from Republican summit as retribution for making DeSantis look bad

Quinn Mitchell is a New Hampshire 15-year-old with a political obsession and a podcast, and one who's already become a fixture of state political events over the last four years. He asks smart questions about current events—and politicians generally let him, since initiating a friendly back-and-forth with a teen or preteen questioner is one of the most reliable ways around to show you can "connect" with campaign crowds.

But Mitchell is also learning some valuable lessons about the state of Republican politics these days, and it all started because he asked presidential contender and current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis one of those smart questions and the automaton blew out three pistons and the better part of a circuit board trying to formulate an answer.

The biggest lesson? You're never too young or too powerless to be put on a political party's permanent shit list, and there's no better way to find yourself there than to do something that makes an aspiring Dear Leader look bad.