Posted on 01/10/2023 6:28:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
Four years ago this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presciently warned in his first inaugural address that big-spending, high-taxing states were inspiring “productive citizens to flee.” DeSantis came into office with a flimsy mandate of just four tenths of one percent at a time when Florida had 257,175 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Republicans now outnumber Democrats in the state by more than 356,000 and, in the wake of his resounding twenty-point win in November, DeSantis’s inaugural address last Tuesday felt like a warm-up for the 2024 presidential campaign.
In his 2019 speech, DeSantis spoke to Floridians, but he seemed to be addressing all Americans, urging us to reconsider Florida as a model rather than as the butt of Florida Man jokes. Republican hopes in 2024 may hinge on this effort to recast the Sunshine State. It won’t be easy, but Florida can be re-branded, though DeSantis will likely need a secret weapon he may not have considered.
Though the media likes to diminish DeSantis as a Trump knockoff, his concise, sixteen-minute address was as focused and substantive as Trump’s speeches are a gallimaufry of complaints and rants. Trump is the businessman, but DeSantis is the one who is all business. Trump uttered nearly 9,000 words in his campaign launch, while DeSantis’s speech weighed in at 1,649. Though it obviously wasn’t a campaign launch, it still sounded like one at times.
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DeSantis is likely to find a receptive audience if he takes his anti-woke message nationally. An October Harvard-Harris poll found that 64 percent of Americans and 52 percent of Democrats blamed “woke politicians” for the recent increase in violent crime, while 77 percent of Americans said it was very or somewhat important to “stop the teaching of woke ideologies in schools.”
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I remember 20 yrs ago FR was quite worried that Florida was going solid Democrat because of all the northeasterners moving down there.
So he’s been doing something right.
I just don't think that the blue cities are recoverable though. Even if they visit and like Florida, they would try to change things to be like the blue hive they came from.
the article looks to be behind a paywall. can you summarize de santos points?
My opinion is that if the crime and other problems in leftist-governed parts of the country are not enough to change minds then nothing is.
“the article looks to be behind a paywall. can you summarize de santos points?”
DeSantis. But you already know that.
Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Italian DeSantis? Anger as PM Meloni Sends Migrants to Cities Run by Leftist Mayors
“My name is Giorgia Meloni, but you can call me Giorgia.” — after Daft Punk
gallimaufry - look that one up
Georgia’s Stacy Abrams raises $380,000 per pound. DeSantis needs to annex Georgia. It’s no longer Sam Nunn’s kinda democrat state.
They’re still coming and lots are dims. 3 just recently moved in the neighborhood. 3 houses that were for sale, all sold to dims. They weren’t cheap either.
Without spending government money - Florida needs something like the Statute of Liberty to serve as a symbol for people fleeing the oppression of failed dominions like California, Illinois, and New York.
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