Posted on 06/10/2023 8:27:33 AM PDT by Drew68
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking at the NCGOP convention Friday night, said if he’s elected president he would reverse the recent decision to change the name of Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
The promise by DeSantis to restore the name of the major military installation just north of Fayetteville, which earned loud cheers and applause from a ballroom full of Republican delegates at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, came just as President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden left newly named Fort Liberty after meeting with members of the armed forces.
The presidential candidate was touting Republican successes in last year’s midterm elections in Florida, and in North Carolina, amid disappointing results in the rest of the country, when he brought up the recently renamed installation.
“I also look forward to, as president, restoring the name of Fort Bragg,” DeSantis said to raucous cheers from the crowd.
He added that he would “thank the people that have served there, and they’re proud of their service there.”
“It’s an iconic name and an iconic base, and we’re not going to let political correctness run amok in North Carolina,” DeSantis said as the crowd continued to cheer.
Earlier on Friday, at Fort Liberty, Biden signed an executive order to enhance employment opportunities for military families. The executive action is intended to improve career stability and expand resources and support for military and veteran spouses, caregivers and survivors.
Fort Liberty, named more than a century earlier in honor of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, was renamed as part of a Department of Defense effort to adopt new names for military installations that were named for Confederate soldiers.
This is like pissing in the wind, as if this is a big issue for anyone.
if you had a relative at bragg...it’s a HUGE issue.
Think of it as analagous to broken windows policing. You rectify the little things, bigger things may follow.
It is a big issue for people here in North Carolina. And if you have any concern at all over the Left’s Orwellian re-writing of history, you would see the importance. I’m glad that DeSantis understands it.
Only because DeSantis said he'd do this before Trump did.
At least Benning got renamed for Colonel Hal Moore, but “Liberty” is so lame.
These Forts already had names and I would have thought that those of us living and dead who made them famous, would have already made the real names of the forts enduring and timeless.
This is good
Obviously
This will be a quandary for south bashers here given their Trump hatred Uke love
(Bragg really sucked though ASJ rip)
Oh boo hoo for u
Trump always resisted this and supported openly under withering attack his support of southerners right to their history same as anyone
If I remember correctly
You know how many non-military, aka civilians, this appeals to? Zip, Zero, NADA. Pissing in the wind is right.
These low hanging fruit issues are nice & all, and I support them, but they don’t really address what is driving to nation to the brink right now. The house is on fire and I believe extinguishing it is the proper priority.
> Think of it as analogous to broken windows policing. <
Excellent point.
While the feral government is putting thousands of political prisoners in the worst prisons DeSanctimonius wants to fight over names. Kabuki theater of the right wing of the Uniparty vulture.
Agreed - the country is collapsing to Marxist communists, but Fort Bragg has it’s name back! Yaaayyy?
You mean that we sound like you DeSimps? How dare we.
You are correct.
That is why DeSantis deserves credit for coming out against the debt ceiling deal, slamming the weaponized DOJ, attacking the Soros-funded District Attorneys and standing up for parental rights over groomers like Disney (even though they are campaign contributors).
DeSantis is showing he can multi-task and go after all these things.
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