“Everyone knows if I’m the nominee, I will beat Biden and I will serve two terms and I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dustbin of history.”
That was Ron DeSantis on Memorial Day, standing in front of a big warship, assuring Americans that, as your two-term president, he would “destroy leftism” and “wokeism.”
Let’s unpack that because that sure sounds like a massive federal overhaul of American life. And we already have a good sense of what that would look like.
In the most recent Florida legislative session, DeSantis and his minions waged a war on women’s reproductive rights. His administration supported book bans. He greenlit draconian restrictions on speech in schools. He’s pushed restrictions on Black history lessons. He’s hurled governmental power at individual businesses to punish them for speech he didn’t like. And he made guns easier to access.
That’s what he’s done and what he wants to do to the rest of this country, per his own words: “Make America Florida.”
Contrast that with Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, a man who is not running for president. In his state’s most recent legislative session, he moved to get families paid family and medical leave, increased funding for free school lunches for kids, passed tax credits for low-income families, strengthened gun laws, protected reproductive rights, and moved to make housing more affordable.
None of that “governing” stuff is apparently appealing to DeSantis, even though Florida is in desperate need of the same help. Have you seen how much it costs to rent a place in Florida? What it costs to insure a home there?
The logical implication of DeSantis’ statement about destroying “wokeism” is that if he’s elected president, the federal government would ignore your material and economic needs. Instead, it would micromanage every aspect of your life.
So I guess the DeSantis administration would move to replace the…
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