And of course, it wasn't "legal". Which is why it finally died. He got a lot of push back from the State Police, and also from a lot of Republicans who realized that this was an incredibly dangerous idea. But it was a harbinger of all the other things he's done since, like stomping on the education system and the gay community, all because it plays to the religious/bigoted majority in the Republican Party these days.
Dah Sanctis and Florida? 3 words No Income tax! While he tries to imitate of ‘Il Duce’, the populace of the swamp cares about on policy….No Income tax! Never mind that the publicly funded education system is being plowed under like the earthquake which killed tens of thousands of Turkish citizens!
As a Florida resident I am very aware of how dangerous DeathSantis is. The fact that he is Ivy League educated is both an advantage and deceptive. He behaves like a little dictator with no manners. The right loves him without question and the Dems had a very poor candidate that enabled him to assume power. He will stop at nothing and should NEVER be trusted.
When DeSantis agrees with the GOP attack on social security, maybe, just maybe, the people of the Villages, might turn against the lot of them. Maybe he has already.
“But we must not ascribe to DeSantis strength, popularity, charisma, or electability that he does not possess. We made that mistake with Trump to our everlasting regret. Ron DeSantis is beatable every day of the week. Indeed, every day of the week he takes evermore preposterous actions that decrease his prospects for victory.”
THANK YOU!!! I feel like I’ve been losing my mind and the only one screaming this from the rooftops. I am soooo tired of people claiming he’s “savvy” or “Trump without the trumpiness!” He’s not! Because all he does is model himself after trump while doing and saying the same things as Trump. The right seem to think they can have all the Trumpiness with another person at the top and that’s never going to work. They always want it both ways; give the Trumpy red meat to the base while acting like they’re actually going to govern for everyone else with the same hateful, ignorant rhetoric that everybody else is repulsed by. They never seem to grasp this & think they can just walk that thin line.
He’s not smart because all he does in my eyes is what Robert said in the above quote. Every single day he makes it more clear how terrible of a candidate he is and everything he’s saying & doing is pushing more and more people away. They still don’t seem to get that it’s not just bad candidates that made them lose in 2022, it’s all the horribly unpopular policies & hate & division only coming from the right.
If he actually thinks that the vast majority of the United States wants to become FLORIDA (shudder), he’s more delusional than I thought! They just don’t face any consequences in the moment so they think they’re super popular and loved by waaaaay more people than they are.
Thank you for this piece! I am so sick and tired of the DeSantis obsession, especially when he’s not a great candidate!! This is literally the party that chose Donald Trump twice but they think DeSantis is a better option. It’s so insane to me 🤦♀️.
When I started voting in my 20s I routinely only cared about a candidate's character, not what they said on the campaign trail. Arguing over the fine points of a candidate's platform is a waste of time since today's politicians of every stripe know what to NOT say and how to avoid traps set by the media. It's a no-brainer that De Santis and similar politicians have absolutely terrible character and God forbid they get into a position where their decision making requires good character.
I live in FL. You sized up DeSantis very well. Thanks. He talks a lot about freedom, but as you essay describes tge only people who are truly free in his world are white men who aren’t educators. Blacks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and women are not free. It’s all about not shutting down during covid
Ron De Santis may, or may not, be counting on a couple of kindred spirits: NYC's Eric Adams and Texas' Greg Abbott, to follow suit with restrictive efforts of their own. Adams came out with "Don't tell me about (no) separation of church and state", at a Prayer Breakfast-to the shock of Jewish and Muslim representatives who were present.
I was very pleased to see your article in Today's Edition about Ron DeSantis. As you know, I've been beating the warning drums about DeSantis for many months. I am a Floridian. I'm also a retired public school educator and local teacher union president. I've been horrified by what RD has so brazenly done to our public schools, and now universities.
As I've noted in the comments previously, in the past there was usually (but not always) a few Republican legislators willing to resist the worst impulses of our previous "worst Governor ever," i.e. - JEB! & Rick Scott. That is not the case in the DeSantis years. The legislature follows his every worst impulse like the lapdogs they are.
I have also stated to anyone who will listen that once DeSantis is exposed to the national spotlight, like a roach exposed by turning on the kitchen lights, he'll be sent scurrying to the darkest cracks of his fascist bunker. The sentiment behind the bumper sticker that you pointed out a while back, "Make America Florida - DeSantis 2024," will be his undoing. The more what he has done to Florida is exposed nationally, the more repulsive he will be revealed to be.
Today I signed up to join a group called "SAVE NEW COLLEGE." I have not yet donated to this group, and won't until I know more about what their plans are to fight the abhorrent deconstruction of their once shining star amongst Florida's public colleges and universities. I encourage more of the readers here to check it out and follow this situation. Learn more about New College's past and what DeSantis has done to it. Here is the link to their site: https://savenewcollege.org/. It is rather a spartan site at the moment, but appears to be a work in progress.
Here is a link to New College's website, which appears to not yet been revised by DeSantis' minions. https://www.ncf.edu/
“I have also stated to anyone who will listen that once DeSantis is exposed to the national spotlight, like a roach exposed by turning on the kitchen lights, he'll be sent scurrying to the darkest cracks of his fascist bunker. The sentiment behind the bumper sticker that you pointed out a while back, "Make America Florida - DeSantis 2024," will be his undoing. The more what he has done to Florida is exposed nationally, the more repulsive he will be revealed to be.”
Thank you, this is EXACTLY what I’ve been saying. I do not understand the obsession with DeSantis on the right or left. If he thinks the majority of the US wants to become Florida, he’s truly more delusional than I thought! Everything you said is why he’s going to lose. He will never be president, just like Trump will never be president again. DeSantis thinks he’s some clever, savvy maneuver with all his hateful, racist and ignorant policies, but that’s all the rest of us see: hate, racism, ignorance.
I think the one of the biggest problems with DeSantis right now is that he’s completely bought into his own hype. Being in Florida where the swampy right wing apparatus has taken over and he can just bully everyone else into doing whatever he wants, he has deluded himself into thinking that will somehow work everywhere else.
It won’t. Not even a little bit. And yet he thinks he’s practically destined for the White House because a bunch of carnival barkers keep telling him how awesome he is and how popular what he’s doing is. Just like the rest of the GOP, delusion is the name of the game. But sure Ron, keep taking away the rights & freedoms of Floridians all in the name of make believe “wokeness” and see how far that gets you!
Danielle W - You hit the nail on the head, "problem with DeSantis right now is that he’s completely bought into his own hype." He wasn't as deluded when he ran for Governor in 2018, or didn't seem to be. He was quite reprehensible, and sucked at Trump's teat for all it was worth, but he didn't act so brazenly, at least not at first. I look forward to him NOT getting the Republican nomination. I also do not put it past him, if he doesn't get the nomination, that he pushes the Florida legislature to change the gubernatorial term limits to allow him to run again, so he can keep his foot in the Republican political cesspool.
I don't see how anyone can add color and flair to your first paragraph, Robert. I will say, though, that DeSantis may have charisma, nerve, and two-inch heels, but those won't make him a drag queen. He lacks uniqueness and talent, and no queen worth her name would be caught dead in heels less than four inches. He IS a small mean man, and I'd vote for any drag queen on the planet before I'd vote for him. Glad I don't live in Florida anymore, or I might get myself in real trouble some day soon.
I believe your depiction of DeSantis is spot on, however what bothers me most is how many willing accomplices he appears to have. Obviously, there must be quite a bit of resistance within Florida to what he's doing, however not a lot of reporting has been done on it. I'm waiting for the Rosa Parks moment, when that ordinary citizen takes a stand, starting the movement that brings him down! Hopefully, it happens soon.
Other than DeSantis's running PR battles with Judd Legum at Popular Information, I hadn't heard about the Florida GOP’s effort to force you and others to register with the State of Florida and file reports on your mentions of DeSantis in your writings. What's that about? What's next, providing reports on your subscribers? What do you about it? How do we help?
"serious, sober, successful"
excellent
that's what happens when adults are in charge
Biden / Harris and Democrats
And of course, it wasn't "legal". Which is why it finally died. He got a lot of push back from the State Police, and also from a lot of Republicans who realized that this was an incredibly dangerous idea. But it was a harbinger of all the other things he's done since, like stomping on the education system and the gay community, all because it plays to the religious/bigoted majority in the Republican Party these days.
Dah Sanctis and Florida? 3 words No Income tax! While he tries to imitate of ‘Il Duce’, the populace of the swamp cares about on policy….No Income tax! Never mind that the publicly funded education system is being plowed under like the earthquake which killed tens of thousands of Turkish citizens!
As a Florida resident I am very aware of how dangerous DeathSantis is. The fact that he is Ivy League educated is both an advantage and deceptive. He behaves like a little dictator with no manners. The right loves him without question and the Dems had a very poor candidate that enabled him to assume power. He will stop at nothing and should NEVER be trusted.
The quicker Trumpsky is indicted, the better. People are losing interest. Trumpsky is still a bad man and a threat to democracy.
When DeSantis agrees with the GOP attack on social security, maybe, just maybe, the people of the Villages, might turn against the lot of them. Maybe he has already.
“But we must not ascribe to DeSantis strength, popularity, charisma, or electability that he does not possess. We made that mistake with Trump to our everlasting regret. Ron DeSantis is beatable every day of the week. Indeed, every day of the week he takes evermore preposterous actions that decrease his prospects for victory.”
THANK YOU!!! I feel like I’ve been losing my mind and the only one screaming this from the rooftops. I am soooo tired of people claiming he’s “savvy” or “Trump without the trumpiness!” He’s not! Because all he does is model himself after trump while doing and saying the same things as Trump. The right seem to think they can have all the Trumpiness with another person at the top and that’s never going to work. They always want it both ways; give the Trumpy red meat to the base while acting like they’re actually going to govern for everyone else with the same hateful, ignorant rhetoric that everybody else is repulsed by. They never seem to grasp this & think they can just walk that thin line.
He’s not smart because all he does in my eyes is what Robert said in the above quote. Every single day he makes it more clear how terrible of a candidate he is and everything he’s saying & doing is pushing more and more people away. They still don’t seem to get that it’s not just bad candidates that made them lose in 2022, it’s all the horribly unpopular policies & hate & division only coming from the right.
If he actually thinks that the vast majority of the United States wants to become FLORIDA (shudder), he’s more delusional than I thought! They just don’t face any consequences in the moment so they think they’re super popular and loved by waaaaay more people than they are.
Thank you for this piece! I am so sick and tired of the DeSantis obsession, especially when he’s not a great candidate!! This is literally the party that chose Donald Trump twice but they think DeSantis is a better option. It’s so insane to me 🤦♀️.
When I started voting in my 20s I routinely only cared about a candidate's character, not what they said on the campaign trail. Arguing over the fine points of a candidate's platform is a waste of time since today's politicians of every stripe know what to NOT say and how to avoid traps set by the media. It's a no-brainer that De Santis and similar politicians have absolutely terrible character and God forbid they get into a position where their decision making requires good character.
I live in FL. You sized up DeSantis very well. Thanks. He talks a lot about freedom, but as you essay describes tge only people who are truly free in his world are white men who aren’t educators. Blacks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and women are not free. It’s all about not shutting down during covid
Ron De Santis may, or may not, be counting on a couple of kindred spirits: NYC's Eric Adams and Texas' Greg Abbott, to follow suit with restrictive efforts of their own. Adams came out with "Don't tell me about (no) separation of church and state", at a Prayer Breakfast-to the shock of Jewish and Muslim representatives who were present.
So let me guess…Desantis is not among your favorite folks ? Mine either….Happy Weekend..
I was very pleased to see your article in Today's Edition about Ron DeSantis. As you know, I've been beating the warning drums about DeSantis for many months. I am a Floridian. I'm also a retired public school educator and local teacher union president. I've been horrified by what RD has so brazenly done to our public schools, and now universities.
As I've noted in the comments previously, in the past there was usually (but not always) a few Republican legislators willing to resist the worst impulses of our previous "worst Governor ever," i.e. - JEB! & Rick Scott. That is not the case in the DeSantis years. The legislature follows his every worst impulse like the lapdogs they are.
I have also stated to anyone who will listen that once DeSantis is exposed to the national spotlight, like a roach exposed by turning on the kitchen lights, he'll be sent scurrying to the darkest cracks of his fascist bunker. The sentiment behind the bumper sticker that you pointed out a while back, "Make America Florida - DeSantis 2024," will be his undoing. The more what he has done to Florida is exposed nationally, the more repulsive he will be revealed to be.
Today I signed up to join a group called "SAVE NEW COLLEGE." I have not yet donated to this group, and won't until I know more about what their plans are to fight the abhorrent deconstruction of their once shining star amongst Florida's public colleges and universities. I encourage more of the readers here to check it out and follow this situation. Learn more about New College's past and what DeSantis has done to it. Here is the link to their site: https://savenewcollege.org/. It is rather a spartan site at the moment, but appears to be a work in progress.
Here is a link to New College's website, which appears to not yet been revised by DeSantis' minions. https://www.ncf.edu/
“I have also stated to anyone who will listen that once DeSantis is exposed to the national spotlight, like a roach exposed by turning on the kitchen lights, he'll be sent scurrying to the darkest cracks of his fascist bunker. The sentiment behind the bumper sticker that you pointed out a while back, "Make America Florida - DeSantis 2024," will be his undoing. The more what he has done to Florida is exposed nationally, the more repulsive he will be revealed to be.”
Thank you, this is EXACTLY what I’ve been saying. I do not understand the obsession with DeSantis on the right or left. If he thinks the majority of the US wants to become Florida, he’s truly more delusional than I thought! Everything you said is why he’s going to lose. He will never be president, just like Trump will never be president again. DeSantis thinks he’s some clever, savvy maneuver with all his hateful, racist and ignorant policies, but that’s all the rest of us see: hate, racism, ignorance.
I think the one of the biggest problems with DeSantis right now is that he’s completely bought into his own hype. Being in Florida where the swampy right wing apparatus has taken over and he can just bully everyone else into doing whatever he wants, he has deluded himself into thinking that will somehow work everywhere else.
It won’t. Not even a little bit. And yet he thinks he’s practically destined for the White House because a bunch of carnival barkers keep telling him how awesome he is and how popular what he’s doing is. Just like the rest of the GOP, delusion is the name of the game. But sure Ron, keep taking away the rights & freedoms of Floridians all in the name of make believe “wokeness” and see how far that gets you!
Danielle W - You hit the nail on the head, "problem with DeSantis right now is that he’s completely bought into his own hype." He wasn't as deluded when he ran for Governor in 2018, or didn't seem to be. He was quite reprehensible, and sucked at Trump's teat for all it was worth, but he didn't act so brazenly, at least not at first. I look forward to him NOT getting the Republican nomination. I also do not put it past him, if he doesn't get the nomination, that he pushes the Florida legislature to change the gubernatorial term limits to allow him to run again, so he can keep his foot in the Republican political cesspool.
I don't see how anyone can add color and flair to your first paragraph, Robert. I will say, though, that DeSantis may have charisma, nerve, and two-inch heels, but those won't make him a drag queen. He lacks uniqueness and talent, and no queen worth her name would be caught dead in heels less than four inches. He IS a small mean man, and I'd vote for any drag queen on the planet before I'd vote for him. Glad I don't live in Florida anymore, or I might get myself in real trouble some day soon.
Right. She’s “Jill Casey DiSantis,” but she goes by “Casey.”
I believe your depiction of DeSantis is spot on, however what bothers me most is how many willing accomplices he appears to have. Obviously, there must be quite a bit of resistance within Florida to what he's doing, however not a lot of reporting has been done on it. I'm waiting for the Rosa Parks moment, when that ordinary citizen takes a stand, starting the movement that brings him down! Hopefully, it happens soon.
Other than DeSantis's running PR battles with Judd Legum at Popular Information, I hadn't heard about the Florida GOP’s effort to force you and others to register with the State of Florida and file reports on your mentions of DeSantis in your writings. What's that about? What's next, providing reports on your subscribers? What do you about it? How do we help?
Hi Robert,
I think there’s a misspelling at the end of this sentence regarding DeSantis:
“Above all else, he is a bully—a defense mechanism designed to conceal his yawning insecurity, just like his two-inch heels.”
It should read “…his two-inch penis.”