Ron DeSantis wants to "make America Florida": That's a dire threat

[marmar]

Ron DeSantis wants to "make America Florida": That's a dire threat
The Trump-DeSantis race is a boon for the mainstream media. For the rest of us, it's an unmitigated disaster

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MAY 30, 2023 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Ron DeSantis has turned Florida into a laboratory for fascist cruelty and authoritarian oppression. Last week, DeSantis finally announced that he hopes to take this experiment nationwide by seeking the presidency.

"American decline is not inevitable," he said. "It is a choice. And we should choose a new direction, a path that will lead to American revitalization. We must restore sanity to our nation."

DeSantis' long-expected announcement was made during a special interview on Twitter with the site's owner, Elon Musk. To say that it didn't go all that well would be a dramatic understatement: The "Twitter Spaces" broadcast repeatedly crashed and had numerous other technical problems.

To many media observers, this appeared emblematic of a candidate and campaign that are already floundering. DeSantis has fallen far behind Donald Trump, widely seen as the presumptive Republican nominee, in the polls.

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The mainstream news media will default once again to its obsolete approaches to covering politics in the Trump era: Horse-race coverage of who's up and who's down, an obsession with minute variations of public opinion polls, scenes at diners and county fairs, soft-focus personality profiles, town halls and debates, pundits ready to pounce on "gaffes" and "self-inflicted wounds," gossip and rumors, and all the other bad practices associated with "both-sides-ism," "objectivity" and "balance" that have collectively normalized the entire Republican fascist movement.

As media critic Jay Rosen and other experts have repeatedly pointed out, in a time of democracy crisis the news media's primary responsibility is to speak truth to power by explaining, in clear and direct terms, how a given policy or a decision by a political actor will affect the daily lives of real people. So what will it mean if Ron DeSantis gets his way and is able to "Make America Florida"? ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/30/ron-desantis-wants-to-make-america-florida-thats-a-dire/

[Lovie777]

1. Matter of fact, the red states are more in tune to Communism..............

Texas and Florida are leading the way.

[RKP5637]

2. And believe him when he says it, he is not joking, look at what Florida has

turned into. He has destroyed kindness, pleasantry, equality, education, childhood, universities, libraries, books, safety and respect, and many things in Florida. It's now a 3rd world state. You have to watch your back now and some are packing up and leaving. ... thanks to Ron DeNazi.

[musclecar6]

3. Oh yeah

Ronny is every bit as much a would be megalomaniac off the chart’s sociopath tyrant as Donny.

The republican party has clearly gone round the bend, when these two clowns are front runners for the nomination.

[RKP5637]

4. It's incredible when this is the best the GOP can come up with. Both of these fool clowns are

about as un-American as they come. It's really a WTF! The US looks like a bunch of ignorant fools to the rest of the world with fools like this for a major political party.

[carpetbagger]

5. A massive prison system, scorn of education, no mental health...

Breeds.....

AMERICA MAN!

[Aristus]

6. A pestilential, disease-riddled swamp?

No thanks, Governor Go-Go Boots...