Posted on 04/17/2022 1:16:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gov. Ron DeSantis has governed like an extremist. He’s stoked racial animosity. He’s disregarded the 73,000-plus Floridians who have died from COVID-19. He’s scapegoated LGBTQ youth. He’s forced the state Legislature to cede power to him in the redrawing of congressional districts that likely diminish Black representation. He’s got autocratic tendencies, inflicting revenge on anyone who dares to disagree.
DeSantis has not been punished politically — on the contrary, he’s benefited. For all the harm he’s done to the Sunshine State, DeSantis is meeting at least some voters where they are. Some even consider him the most powerful governor in recent history.
Very few people, including many Democrats, doubt he will win reelection. Maybe his antics are all part of his purported plan to run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. But in the Sunshine State, his approval ratings remain high (58%, according to a February poll).
Part of the blame for this one-man rule falls on Florida Democrats’ ineptitude at winning elections. In this case, they have yet to discover how to counter the governor’s political messaging machine and the “socialist” label the GOP has attached to them. Florida has become more red and less purple in recent elections. Donald Trump won the state twice. The number of registered Republican voters outpaced the number of Democrats last year.
Florida has become MAGA Central.
With every culture war the governor launches — whether it be against critical race theory or “woke” Disney — he appears to have his finger on the pulse of something.
That something might be the discomfort some Americans — and not just those MAGA Trump voters the left often ridicules — have with fast-changing cultural norms about gender, sexuality and race. Concerns that the left, perhaps, have too brusquely dismissed without giving them a fair hearing.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
DESANTIS - MAKING FLORIDA GREAT AGAIN!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
He’s standing up to their nonsense and has them beside themselves in panic. They don’t know how to handle him so they do what they always do, knee jerk label him as an “extremist”.
I love it.
He’s the best thing to happen to Florida since they started growing oranges.
You really should have given this thread title a barf alert.
It’s good to see the left so strung out over him. Apparently, they don’t get that for all the harm they are claiming he’s doing to FL, the people don’t see it that way or he wouldn’t be so insanely popular.
No bias in this story/sarc
Satan is not happy.
Pray for the Governor. He is the only national figure than I know who is telling liberals no - not just slow down - but NO!
I wish more governors would take a cue from him and stand up to the left with the courage and clarity he does.
Dear God, please give us more men and women in politics like him.
“Florida is a Donald Trump dystopia thanks to Ron DeSantis” is what shows at the top of the screen, above my menu bar. That’s probably the original title. Had to tone it down so as to keep some of their dwindling subscription base.
I live in Florida and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMEN!
And we do need to pray for him.
I can only imagine the crap he has to deal with from the left on a daily basis, nasty stuff like threats to him and his family and other stuff that never makes the news.
His handling of Covid has been a breath of fresh air in a country gone nuts with Covid mania. It's one of the few places where you could go about your life without endless hounding by the Covid police over the last two years. For that alone he should be nominated for sainthood.
Yes! Go DeSantis! And he’s not doing it on his own...it’s us, the people of Florida. But he’s what a real leader should be, getting support and a focus for people’s aspirations.
This is not journalism, this is nonsense Marxist trash. This is cat box liner.
No barf alert here. This is something an elderly conservative like me has been waiting to read for years.
This is an editorial about socialism in retreat.
Makes me purr like my cat enjoying God’s Easter sunshine.
Dear Miami Herald:
Boo freaking hoo.
The blowback for the last six years will be…harsh. Embrace the suck.
Including Nancy Pelosi.
Does anyone still read newspapers or their websites?
I can think of a single person who read the AJC.
“Dear God, please give us more men and women in politics like him.”......Amen.
With every culture war the governor launches — whether it be against critical race theory or “woke” Disney — he appears to have his finger on the pulse of something.
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Something.........they don’t know what that something is because it is outside the narrative.
The narrative is that what he is doing is bad, but the citizens don’t see it that way.
That’s very frustrating to them because that shows people are not believing the narrative.
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