'We Want People That Are Going to Fight the Left,' Says the Man Out-Trumping Trump

[Zorro]

Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, is giving Donald Trump a run for his money as the most divisive politician in America.

“We want people that are going to fight the left, and that’s what we need to do in this country,” DeSantis declared in an interview with Fox News on Feb. 8. “That’s what we’re doing in Florida, standing up for people’s freedoms. We’re opposing wokeness. We’re opposing all these things.”

In a Nov. 5, 2021, article on the liberal Daily Beast website, “Desperate, Deranged DeSantis Devolves Into Dumb Troll,” Ruben Navarrette Jr. wrote that DeSantis “is a terrible governor who is failing his leadership course with flying colors. Driven only by politics and naked ambition, he pursues reckless policies that divide Floridians and may even put them in danger.”

The governor routinely succumbs to right-wing pressure groups, Navarrette continued, “because he apparently has no core beliefs other than the unshakable conviction that he should sit in the Oval Office.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/opinion/ron-desantis-is-gambling-on-out-trumping-trump.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin would love to put DeSantis in the White House.

To further divide and weaken the US.

And to make Americans miserable.

[mindem]

2. What is he really saying?

"We want people that will fight to be good fascists".

This is getting so tiresome.

[Zorro]

3. DeSantis is stoking a lot of hatred in Florida

There's pretty much a daily two minute hate speech from him, attacking Biden and the Democrats over whatever is the issue de jour. He really is loathsome but appeals to a lot of the louts in Florida.

[lees1975]

4. Standing up for people's freedoms?

Who's he kidding?

He's a tyrant.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I definitely believe he's putting my life in

Danger. That kind of rhetoric threatens people with my roots and my beliefs

[live love laugh]

6. And it's not The Onion: "...We're opposing wokeness..."