Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
No Florida History Podcast this week
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We’ll return with a new podcast next week.
The Smathers Project: A mixed legacy
We’ll get back to our own analysis of Senator George Smathers’ legacy soon, but for posterity’s sake, it’s important to read this obituary from The Washington Post to understand the scope and breadth of his importance.
Democrats chances to beat DeSantis have largely evaporated while the party’s continued comical ineptitude continues
A new batch of polls, most recently (and reliably) the new St Pete Polls confirms what many of us have been sensing. The Democrats, in classic Florida Democratic style have failed to properly define Governor DeSantis and are likely headed toward electoral Armageddon here in Florida in 2022. The Governor has opened up a sizable […]
TFS+ – Elitism and the Democratic Party’s increasingly woeful future prospects
Read the entire article at TFS + Some key points: Back in the day, Democrats used to own the county fair and homecoming parade circuit. They used to be salt of the earth and a stark contrast with stiff, wooden and elitist county club-style Republicans. Boy have times changed. Most voting precincts aren’t academic lecture […]
What should a Democratic reset look like?
By now it’s pretty clear Democrats have a problem with working class voters. Ruy Teixeira who is one of the smart Democrats in the country has a look at what might need to happen next?
How to WIN (whip inflation now)? We need immigrants and a reduction in tariffs
FOX News and provocateurs on the right are accusing President Biden of being “soft on the border” and the party led by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are engaging in all sorts of scare tactics related to this issue. However, Biden is in fact not doing enough to open the border and invite workers into the […]
Florida commercial aviation weekly news
American Airlines will discontinue nonstop service from Orlando and Pensacola to New York-LaGuardia effective January 5, and is suspending all Fort Lauderdale to/from Port-Au-Prince nonstops until March, and leaving just a single nonstop flight from Miami during that period. Typically FLL/MIA-PAP sees six or seven daily roundtrip nonstops on American. JetBlue will increase Fort Lauderdale […]
Systemic racism in Highway building: Florida’s Interstates that plowed through African-American communities
Last week, Governor Ron DeSantis in response to the idea of systemic racism in highway building said “a road is a road.” Well, on this week’s Florida History podcast we will demonstrate that is not the case with several examples from the state of Florida where roads were built right through African-American neighborhoods. Brook Hines […]
The Smathers Project: George Smathers on Civil Rights
As part of our continuing look at George Smathers record here is a clip from Florida Memory where Smathers talks about Civil Rights, party caucuses and joining the southern filibuster against Civil Rights legislation.
Explanation to readers for my use of the term socialism to describe Florida Republicans and other notes on Democratic messaging
Yesterday, I penned an article arguing this week’s legislative session was about Republicans pushing their own version of socialism regarding COVID, which in my opinion has been a constant theme of the formerly conservative GOP since Donald Trump’s election in 2016. The use of the term socialism set off a firestorm on my phone, but […]
The Florida Squeeze 