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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,239 posts)
Thu Aug 3, 2023, 08:59 PM Aug 2023

'They've gone too far': Columnist laments there's no reset for damage DeSantis has done to Florida

There’s no reset for the damage Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done to his home state, a Miami columnist wrote Thursday.

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“DeSantis has hit the reset button, shifting his focus to economic issues. …He’s still rallying against what he describes as 'woke,' but he’s poised to show his populist and sympathetic side.”

But the switch will change nothing for the people living in Florida, he wrote.

“Even if DeSantis magically transforms into Ronald Reagan, the damage he’s done has been enshrined into every facet of Florida law and policy,” Hoffman wrote.

As examples, Hoffman described the crackdown on mentioning LGBTQ issues or race in the state’s classrooms, the use of “indoctrination” teaching materials created by the conservative PragerU that teaches slavery was “no big deal,” and the effort to halt prescribed medical care for transgender kids.

“The Legislature in the past two years has been hard at work to make sure DeSantis had enough culture-war victories to brag about,” Hoffman wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-ve-gone-too-far-columnist-laments-there-s-no-reset-for-damage-desantis-has-done-to-florida/ar-AA1eK2ot

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'They've gone too far': Columnist laments there's no reset for damage DeSantis has done to Florida (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 OP
R I.P. Florida. How I loved ya. Joinfortmill Aug 2023 #1
Look at the bright side... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #2
And he's given the whole country a jarring preview... AmBlue Aug 2023 #3
I beg your pardon! usonian Aug 2023 #4

2naSalit

(102,793 posts)
2. Look at the bright side...
Thu Aug 3, 2023, 09:16 PM
Aug 2023

It gives all the sane people a chance to get out before it gets swallowed up by the ocean in a couple years.

AmBlue

(3,460 posts)
3. And he's given the whole country a jarring preview...
Thu Aug 3, 2023, 09:27 PM
Aug 2023

Of what's to come should he somehow manage to be elected President.

usonian

(25,324 posts)
4. I beg your pardon!
Thu Aug 3, 2023, 09:30 PM
Aug 2023

To the author, not the poster.

We're still hurting from what Reagan did to California. And he made it hard to undo.

Smooth-talking or crass as ISIS, out with every damn lying, nihilistic one of them.

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