Ron DeSantis Won't Be Awoken

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“For a guy who talks an awful lot about freedom, Ron DeSantis has a powerful desire and commitment to limit the freedoms of others.”

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Ron DeSantis Won’t Be Awoken
The Florida governor is bent on stoking the culture wars as his path to victory in Florida and beyond
6:45 AM · Aug 22, 2022

https://america.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-wont-be-awoken

On June 4, 1940, in a famed speech before the House of Commons at the end of the Dunkirk evacuation that saved the lives of more than 338,000 British and French troops, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made clear his determination to achieve victory over the Nazis. It was a powerful message—inspired by what he called “a miracle of deliverance” at Dunkirk—and delivered with a memorable cadence near its conclusion.

“Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule,” he declared, “we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender….”

This historic moment came to mind this weekend after hearing a portion of a speech by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is busy fashioning himself as the autocratic political heir to Donald Trump and a top contender for the 2024 presidential race. It caught my attention because of the similar cadence, the use of the term “fight” and the subject that motivated him. His target was not the world domination of the Nazis, but woke ideology, which he claims “ravages every institution in our society.”

Here’s what DeSantis said in a speech on Friday in Pittsburgh, where he came to campaign for Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and 2020 election denier Doug Mastriano:

“We must fight the woke in our schools. We must fight the woke in our businesses. We must fight the woke in government agencies. We can never ever surrender to woke ideology. And I’ll tell you this, the state of Florida is where woke goes to die.”

Seriously. This pale imitation is the culture war that he thinks deserves raising the stakes to be compared with the British confrontation with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Make no mistake: DeSantis is smart enough to know Churchill’s speech—which makes this battle cry particularly ridiculous.

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