Category Ron DeSantis
DeSantis’ Utah presentation continues Florida GOP’s dangerous attachment to ALEC
Governor DeSantis made headlines for his demagogic performative speech in Utah at an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference. The organization which bills itself as a bastion of free markets and limited government (a rich irony when cozying up to a statist authoritarian like DeSantis) has influenced legislation in Florida since the 1990’s. Who is […]
Florida Republicans are sickening – DeSantis and his allies are employing tyrannical overreach and overheated demagoguery during Florida’s darkest days.
While COVID explodes in Florida (over the last ten days, Florida with under 7% of the nation’s population has accounted for over 20% of new cases according to CDC data -but remains one of only three states not reporting daily information itself) Florida Republicans continue to demagogue a fundamental public health issue. Never one to […]
What is Governor DeSantis Covid endgame?
Covid is threatening to overrun the state of Florida again. In the last ten days, according to CDC data, Florida has accounted for almost 25% of new COVID cases in the nation and many of the state’s hospitals are being largely overrun with new Covid patients just weeks after we were told that vaccinated Americans […]
SOS Governor DeSantis – Fiddling while Florida Burns
COVID-19 is back in a big way for Floridians, with over 40,000 new cases recorded in the last four days. This includes Attorney General Ashley Moody, a Republican from Tampa who is vaccinated. Florida accounts for about 25% of the news cases nationally in the last three days according to the Centers for Disease Control […]
Let’s call “Cancel Culture” by its real name – the free market
Conservatives love to drone on about free markets and capitalism. Yet the very purest form of capitalism now practiced in liberal western democracies they not only reject, but are completely aghast about – the so called “cancel culture.” “Cancel culture” really is, the most conservative of things which puts capitalism in the driver’s seat. It’s […]
TFS +: Fixing the Democrats messaging woes in Florida
Democratic activists might believe Governor Ron DeSantis is in re-election trouble- but plainly he is not at this point in time. In fact, he enters sits in stronger position for reelection a year and half out than any previous GOP governor in the last 150 years. Once again Florida’s Democrats are showing an inability […]
The GOP assault on academic freedom continues along with the Sovietization of Florida
This week Ron DeSantis signed legislation that could have been cooked up behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Once again DeSantis’ and his Republican Party of Florida have taken liberty to crush the ability of local government to function without restrictions and have continued the two-decade assault on Academia in the Florida. DeSantis’ […]
On Critical Race Theory: How should history be taught in Florida Schools?
On a Special Edition of The Florida History Podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer dives into the topic of the day as created by Governor Ron DeSantis – the controversy over “Critical Race Theory.” Governor DeSantis and his allies on the State Board of Education have banned the teaching of “Critical Race Theory.” This is fascinating given the […]
Does “green governor” DeSantis already regret his (regrettable) Kendall Parkway vote? Or is it all a game?
While Democrats and ideological liberals do not like Governor Ron DeSantis, he’s basically proven to be a “majoritarian” in office, zig-zagging from conservatism on social issues to an anti-free market populist on fiscal issues. But one thing may trip him up which is his fealty to developers and anti-environmental forces while rhetorically being green, because […]
The failure of Florida Democrats has fed DeSantis’ Machiavellian success
Florida Democrats have never met quite a match as they do now in Governor Ron DeSantis. While Florida’s Democrats are on a twenty plus year losing streak, they’ve often lucked out in terms of opposition and the use of power. DeSantis is a master of holding and using power in the manner taught to us […]
The Florida Squeeze 