Trump-appointed Federal Judge Britt C. Grant called the DeSantis Stop Woke law “a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse.”
A state run by frightened white folks who want to play down anything critical instead of dealing with our sometimes uplifting, sometimes embarrassing, often maddening history.
The history of the last few decades shows that, if there’s a way Democrats can screw up, they probably will. Yet there remains that chance—that little chance—one or two will break through.
Ron DeSantis may finally be meeting his moment. He's convinced that the Constitution got it wrong with the 14th Amendment and that enslaved people learned useful skills.
Republican donors who lavished DeSantis, Trump, and other political campaigns with cash were first to sidle up to the trough of money to be made from the deportation system.
Florida wants to show the rest of the country how it's done. You used to be able smell Jacksonville long before you saw it: gleaming paper mills and chemical plants pumped out the profits.
There is no persecution of Christians in America. The persecuted are those who belong to disfavored cultures—Afghan or Latino or Black—those who express their sexuality in a disfavored way or speak out disfavored opinions.