Good column. The shocking distortion of history puts teachers in a terrible position, subject to being victimized by any disgruntled DeSantis-voting parent. The last paragraph, about taking out his anger on the state of Florida, will be sad to see. And it will happen.
What a creep to his very core. A fake person through and through and willing to sacrifice others in pursuit of his ambitions. It never ends well for people like this. Can't wait for him to pack it up and go home to his racist fiefdom.
This article on De Santi's unsuccessful (so far, hopefully for ever) has rather more to say as to why Democrat supporters wouldn't vote for him when the question is why haven't Republican supporters say they won't vote for him. Not to put to fine a point on it, camping permanently outside the well of bigotry doesn't seem a bad strategy for people making appeals to that market.
That said his failure to attack Trump is clearly a tactical mistake even though attacking him would be politically dangerous given the pervasiveness of the Trump cult of personality amongst Republican voters. My guess is that he made the mistake of appealing to the small segment of voters more extreme than Trump, many of whom were deeply emotionally attatched to the orange buffoon. He'd have done better trying to appeal to the Trump sceptical wing and having won that tried to palm himself as a bigot just like Trump to the remainder. He'd have had a real chance of success on the second bit.
Serious question...I thought the National Guard was sent to protect the children and allow them to enter the school. I don't recall hearing about them terrorizing the children? Perhaps the Arkansas Guard weren't letting them in while they were under the control of Wallace, but Eisenhower fixed that. The way the article is written is a little misleading.
They were sent by the governor to join the white mob in preventing the students from entering on the first day of school on 5 September 1957. It was not until 23 September after Eisenhower intervened and sent in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, that the students got in.
Good column. The shocking distortion of history puts teachers in a terrible position, subject to being victimized by any disgruntled DeSantis-voting parent. The last paragraph, about taking out his anger on the state of Florida, will be sad to see. And it will happen.
What a creep to his very core. A fake person through and through and willing to sacrifice others in pursuit of his ambitions. It never ends well for people like this. Can't wait for him to pack it up and go home to his racist fiefdom.
He is quite likely a sociopath and possibly a psychopath.
DeSatan is Putin. People in Florida who oppose the governor better watch out that they don't get defenestrated or poisoned.
This article on De Santi's unsuccessful (so far, hopefully for ever) has rather more to say as to why Democrat supporters wouldn't vote for him when the question is why haven't Republican supporters say they won't vote for him. Not to put to fine a point on it, camping permanently outside the well of bigotry doesn't seem a bad strategy for people making appeals to that market.
That said his failure to attack Trump is clearly a tactical mistake even though attacking him would be politically dangerous given the pervasiveness of the Trump cult of personality amongst Republican voters. My guess is that he made the mistake of appealing to the small segment of voters more extreme than Trump, many of whom were deeply emotionally attatched to the orange buffoon. He'd have done better trying to appeal to the Trump sceptical wing and having won that tried to palm himself as a bigot just like Trump to the remainder. He'd have had a real chance of success on the second bit.
Serious question...I thought the National Guard was sent to protect the children and allow them to enter the school. I don't recall hearing about them terrorizing the children? Perhaps the Arkansas Guard weren't letting them in while they were under the control of Wallace, but Eisenhower fixed that. The way the article is written is a little misleading.
They were sent by the governor to join the white mob in preventing the students from entering on the first day of school on 5 September 1957. It was not until 23 September after Eisenhower intervened and sent in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, that the students got in.
So, just like Trump, DeSantis is a chickenshit coward who uses bullying to pretend he's tough.
Let's SCARE him, so he pisses his pants like the weakling he truly is.