Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ascendant in U.S. politics, with new polling indicating that Donald Trump would now lose to DeSantis if Republican voters were given a choice today about who to vote for in a presidential primary for 2024. But what mainstream media are too often failing to recognize is how DeSantis’s political actions — from his shameful treatment of migrants to his use of election police to terrorize voters — are fueling the emergence of fascist politics in the United States.
Too often issues are dealt with in the mainstream press in an utterly isolated fashion, removed from both a historical context and a number of related issues. For instance, many of the policies enacted by GOP legislators, such as the banning of books, resonate with policies that were used in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries in the 1930s and 1970s.
Treating issues in a disconnected and isolated manner makes it difficult to understand how they fit into a broader pattern of […]
I totally agree with your views on DeSantis, and it is comparable to my problem with Microsoft and their power to cut off poor people’s access to the internet. Microsoft and their big donors like Dell Computer Company rule poor people’s lives like they are dictators also (referring to my previous opinion in the previous article). They should not have and use that much power to destroy people’s lives!