The future of the GOP consists of nutjobs, cheaters and Ron DeSantis

[teach1st]

The future of the GOP consists of nutjobs, cheaters and Ron DeSantis
Creative Loafing, Tampa Bay, 2/6/2020

Like Trump, DeSantis’s political patron, he scorned expertise during the pandemic—pushing herd immunity, banning mask mandates, withholding information from the public, purchasing absurd quantities of hydroxychloroquine, even siccing his cops on a prominent critic—while his state racked up more than 27,000 deaths.

Also like Trump, DeSantis saw protests against police brutality as a chance to burnish his authoritarian cred. In his case, it was a bill that makes it a felony to pull down racist statues, allows the state to overrule any local government that cuts its police budget, and severely increases penalties for criminal acts committed during a vaguely defined “riot.” The bill also prohibits “mob intimidation”—in other words, protests, if the DA says the protest carries the “threat of force”—and makes doxxing a first-degree misdemeanor.

And when Trump got banned by Twitter, DeSantis saw an opportunity. He proposed a law—obnoxiously unconstitutional, stupidly impractical, and the opposite of laissez-faire—to slap $100,000-a-day fines on social media companies that deplatform a political candidate. Just to underline this: DeSantis wants to require private corporations to provide politicians with a free platform from which to spread propaganda, regardless of whether it’s factual, disseminates hate speech, or explicitly calls for violence.

This is the future of the Republican Party: extremists acting with impunity, politicians owning the libs and basking in victimhood, and a party that unapologetically cheats when it can’t win.

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[Iliyah]

1. Present day as well . .

republicans are completely insane.