True, but Ben Sasse won’t be in government anymore, he will be academia, given who normally runs that area around the country, he would be far right compared to most of them.
Remember the current President of UF led the push to get rid of the Gator Chomp cheer because of its supposed racist history when the cheer was popularized by a black player from Miami.
Yeah, the Gator Bait cheer. That was a pure “hey look at me and my woke bona fides!” move on his part. He had to dig deep to find a lone article from some obscure magazine over 100 years ago that nobody had ever heard of. Obviously, there was no racial angle to the cheer and everybody knew it.
Then again, Carrie Nation Machen tried to get rid of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party moniker for the FL-GA game because gosh, if you don’t mention boozing then nobody is going to spend the week of the game getting utterly sloshed. No siree! Its all that evil name which causes people to drink that demon rum!
Worthless virtue signaling Idiots. I usually just ignore these mercenaries. They’re not real Gators. They’ll take their paychecks and be gone in a few years. We are real Gators and it will always be our school for all of our lives.
As for Sasse, its not just that I dislike him. Its also that his faction is clearly losing the power struggle within the Republican Party. I doubt as a standard bearer of the losing faction, he is going to have much pull with the Republicans in the legislature or with DeSantis. Its not a bad idea to have a political animal as your school president if he can finagle some goodies out of the state government like Thrasher did for fsu, but if that was the angle here, Sasse is a really poor choice for that. They should have picked somebody who was aligned with the MAGA movement.
And it could be worse, it could have been Donna Shalala.
I always gave my friends from Miami hell for that one.