'In his maniacal search for manufactured culture war assaults and new 'libs to own,' DeSantis has a bully's knack for finding easy targets among marginalized groups.'
His Trump-style, pugilistic approach was rewarded by Florida voters who reelected him by 19 percentage points."Florida is where 'woke' goes to die" was DeSantis's sinisterin his inauguration speech, weaponizing"woke" to denounce any disliked policy from climate change to transgender rights, critical race theory, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
As governor, DeSantis has failed to expand Medicaid, leaving hundreds of thousands of Floridians without health insurance. As a three-term congressman, DeSantis was a fierce opponent not just of the Affordable Care Act, but Social Security and Medicare. Heto strip a quarter trillion dollars from programs that allow retired Americans to survive. Like most other Republicans in 2017, he voted to cut taxes on corporations, high-earners, and wealthy heirs.
Single-minded about using the blunt-force gears of state to troll"the libs," DeSantis's anti-education crusade is doubly authoritarian—most obviously in its use of state power to suppress ideas and information, but also in its more subtle assumption that teaching is ultimately about imposing doctrines of one sort or another. As if he's auditioning for an anchor job, DeSantis is all over"Gov.
American schools as"hunting grounds" for pedophile teachers and suggesting that"parents have good reason" to worry about"grooming" in public schools., bans the teaching of anything that might cause students to feel"guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress.
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