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Zorro

(18,695 posts)
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 10:34 AM Aug 2023

DeSantis's Florida shows the disaster of more competent Trumpism

The Trump policy agenda — but with less drama and more competent execution.

That’s the platform most GOP presidential hopefuls are presenting to primary voters. The idea seems to be that by toning down former president Donald Trump’s more vaudevillian, law-skirting qualities, candidates can lure away the traditional conservatives who think of themselves as prioritizing pro-life values, adherence to the Constitution, limited government, fiscal restraint and religious freedom.

Unfortunately, no shift in style can obscure the fact that a truly Trumpian agenda serves none of these lofty principles. It subordinates them to one single goal: owning the libs and other disfavored groups. And we’re already seeing proof of concept, since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has lately been implementing such an agenda in his state — with an efficiency that shows how much more Trumpism undercuts conservative values when it doesn’t have incompetence to hold it back.

Take DeSantis’s draconian new anti-immigrant law, which took effect last month. It was supposed to demonstrate how a more disciplined government executive could deliver on Trump’s unfinished economic and cultural agenda. But evidence available so far suggests it’s undermining values that conservatives say they care about.

Among other measures, the law requires hospitals to interrogate incoming patients about their immigration status, and then report the resulting data back to the state. Unsurprisingly, this has had the effect of discouraging immigrants and their family members from seeking potentially lifesaving medical treatment.

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DeSantis's Florida shows the disaster of more competent Trumpism (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2023 OP
The writer is giving the Republicans too much credit.... TheRealNorth Aug 2023 #1

TheRealNorth

(9,647 posts)
1. The writer is giving the Republicans too much credit....
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 12:37 PM
Aug 2023

Republicans don't care about life when it comes to undocumented immigrants. For proof - look no further then the razor wire Herr Abbot installed in the Rio Grande.

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