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Sunday, May 7th, 2023

Fewer pronouns, more guns: Ron DeSantis’s plan to turn the US into Florida

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I tell you frequently that Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, and that this can be verified by wellbeing social outcome data. I know that sounds like partisan politics but it is not. It is the measure of wellbeing for the people who live in Red states, compared with the wellbeing of people living in Blue states. Look at the chart at the head of this report. As this article describes Ron DeSantis, a vulgar, crass, and rather nasty man, was elected by the people of Florida, and he has done just what he said he would do and the result is just what I said it would be. The degrading of the quality of life for the people who elected him. So the question I think we should be asking is, why do people vote for politicians whose only achievement is to make their lives miserable?

The title of Governor Ron DeSantis’s book, which he is zealously promoting across the nation, is less important than the subtitle. The Courage to Be Free is a forgettable title shared by a volume by actor and gun rights activist Charlton Heston. But the subtitle, Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival, unlocks DeSantis’s national ambitions.

While former US president Donald Trump labours under the frayed slogan of “Make America great again”, DeSantis is building a case to “Make America Florida” – a phrase that appears on caps, flags and other merchandise.https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2023/04/archive-zip/giv-13425v1EEiCKrw633/

The governor argues that he has made glorious summer in the Sunshine state. If and when he announces a run for US president in 2024, he will claim that he can repeat the formula in state after state across the US. Florida, his theory goes, is an incubator of conservative ideas that work.

He dangles a carrot to Republicans who, weary of Trump’s losing streak, are seeking a saviour. DeSantis writes that when he was elected in 2018, there were nearly 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida; […]

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