Jamelle Bouie: 'The upshot of all this is that DeSantis’ opponents should, as much as possible, refuse to play his game. You don’t have to confront him on his terrain.'
Gov. Ron DeSantis at a rally in Hialeah, on Nov. 7, 2022.Here’s a question: What does Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida think about Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? The Affordable Care Act?
By no means is any of this trivial or unimportant. Florida is the third-most populous state. To launch a war on vaccines or use state power to harass transgender students is to make life difficult, even dangerous, for thousands of people. DeSantis was an especially fierce opponent of so-called entitlements and other forms of federal aid. He helped lead the effort to shut down the government over funding for the Affordable Care Act in 2013 and, the same year voted to pass a budget resolution that would have cut more than $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare over a decade. In 2017, like most other Republicans, he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to cut taxes on corporations, high-earners and wealthy heirs.
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