Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Hey, Hey, Hey… Good-Bye!
Out with a whimper, not a bang
I will miss my home state governor, Ron DeSantis, out on the campaign trail in South Carolina, New Hampshire, and wherever fate may have taken him. Not only did his doomed run for the Republican nomination keep him from doing more harm in Florida. Other parts of the nation got to meet him and discovered they weren’t really into him.
Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign before the votes were cast in the New Hampshire primary to avoid another embarrassing loss to Donald Trump and likely Nikki Haley. Then, he could have been humiliated again in South Carolina. My perfect scenario would have been for him to end his campaign after a Super Tuesday drubbing, adding to his reputation as a laughing stock.
The bad news is that DeSantis is back in Florida, bruised and battered but not beaten. He has three years left as Florida’s governor, where he can continue eroding the rights of our citizens, banning books that now include dictionaries and encyclopedias, suppressing votes, and erasing the parts of Black History that don’t feel good.
I feel the need to be fair in that Florida schools cover a wide range of topics regarding Black History, but we get the sanitized version. Florida doesn’t call the dramatic number of slave births the product…
