Ron DeSantis once again shows he’s far more illiberal than the “woke” left he vilifies. jonathanchait writes
“The state of Florida is the place where woke goes to die,” boasted Ron DeSantis at a recent press conference. “We are not gonna let this state descend into some kind of woke dumpster fire. We’re going to be following common sense. We’re going to be following facts.”
Hardly any critic of the illiberal left would deny that the peak moment of progressive cultural Jacobinism occurred in 2020, when Donald Trump was president, and that it has receded since Joe Biden took his job. The comparison is obviously not perfectly fair since 2020 also saw the video-recorded murder of an unarmed Black man by a grinning white cop. Still, it seems fairly clear that the explosion of reductive left-wing identity discourse was in no small part a response to Trump’s provocations.
The Republican Party’s strategy is precisely the opposite. Where Biden seeks to conciliate, the Republicans revel in stoking cultural conflict. The Republican method is the mirror image of the far left’s: to define the terms of the debate as a binary choice between extremes and, thus, to negate the possibility of any moderate position between them.
“We have banned ideologies like critical race theory from our K-12 schools,” he boasted in his Turning Point speech. “The purpose of our school system is to educate our kids, not to indoctrinate our kids.” Yet moments later, he made clear his alternative was to “graduate kids that … know that our rights come from God, not from government.” He boasted of requiring schools to devote a day to instructing children about the evils of communism.
DeSantis pretended that the retaliation against Disney represented merely some kind of good-government reform . But if this is so, why did he impose these changes only in response to Disney’s criticism? His own explanation is that if Disney had refrained from criticizing his agenda, it would not have to live under the same laws as everybody else or pay its fair share of taxes.
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