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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis aspires to be the same kind of Autocrat despised by the founders of the United States. He must be exposed for what he is: a great threat to our Democratic Republic and American values. Republicans don't punish big businesses like the Walt Disney Company for disagreeing with them. Fascists do. DeSantis and those like him are a massive threat to our Democracy.
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Regarding DeSantis winning the past two elections, the Democrats here have simply not put forth a competitive candidate against him;
Gillum in 2018, (who only lost by 0.4% of the vote,) who has since been indicted on wire fraud, conspiracy, and false statements charges
And Crist, the former REPUBLICAN Governor
"the ones that can read have already left the state."
This kind of rhetoric - painting Florida as a Republican wasteland - is what DeSantis and his ilk want.
Not everyone has the means to leave (poor, minors, etc.), and pretending like these people don't exist and disenfranchising them is playing right into DeSantis's hands.
There are also those of us that consider Florida our home and hate to see it being abandoned and left to be devoured by DeSantis.
Florida was a solidly purple state pre-covid, but now fans of DeSantis are encouraged to move here and anyone that doesn't like him and/or is threatened by his policies is encouraged to leave, strengthening his stranglehold on the state and giving him a solid base to work from.
If we instead encouraged people that don't like DeSantis to stay/move here and vote/take action against him, it would be much easier to remove him from power.
I'm at least one anti Desantis vote in Florida. And I can read too.
...but you're on teamevil
I know ...it was a reference to McCain (not bad) and Palin (numbskull) but quite frankly they are near saints to this bullshit.