The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to '24

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Paramilitary posturing. Voter suppression. Enlisting state power to go after his enemies. Ron DeSantis has brought full-on fascism to Florida, and now he's taking it national

The GOP's DeSantis and Trump are racing into rock bottom for 2024. My new column

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The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to ’24
The Fla. governor cracks downs on voting and classroom free speech — and offers Pa. a scary sneak peak at a 2024 presidential race to the bottom.
12:10 PM · Aug 21, 2022

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The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, brought his act to Pittsburgh on Friday and left little doubt that he’s running for president in 2024. We need to talk about this, but first let’s look at the even more revealing event that DeSantis staged right before he boarded the jet for his Rust Belt road swing — a full-on display of what 21st-century American fascism looks like.

In heavily Democratic Fort Lauderdale, the 5′9″ DeSantis — the modern fulfillment of the Jimmy Breslin-ism about a small man in search of a balcony — elevated himself on a podium, flanked as he so often is by armed and uniformed men and women of law enforcement, to highlight his crackdown on supposed voter fraud ahead of November’s election.

“That is against the law, and now they’re gonna pay the price for it,” DeSantis declared of 20 Floridians — almost all from Democratic strongholds such as Broward County, where his campaign-rally-style announcement was staged, or Miami-Dade — accused of casting ballots despite a law barring them because they’d been convicted of murder or sexual assault.

But the event and its stench of “law and order” intimidation revealed so much more through what was left unsaid. Such as the fact that DeSantis’ Office of Election Crimes and Security — like so much that the Florida governor does, a dangerous escalation of the GOP’s long-running war on voting rights into straight-up authoritarian territory — has spent $3.9 million in taxpayer dollars to find alleged fraud in less than 0.0002% of the 11 million votes cast in the Sunshine State. The outlay is about $195,000 for each allegation.

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NOpoleon

[sop]

1. Let's call him "Tiny Trump."

[Maru Kitteh]

4. No I don't think so. Ronald is 10x more dangerous than Donald.

[Karadeniz]

2. Sickening...

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. On a broader scale

Will evangelicals support a Catholic?

[Maru Kitteh]

7. In the past not so much but now, of course they will. When it comes

to getting people to hate other people, it has always been more about who was yanking their chain then the actual qualities of the “other.”

If the Catholic is a raving racist (check) and is at least fascist-adjacent (check) then the evangelicals will support the Catholic.

[Demovictory9]

5. not just voting and education, every realm of life he's sticking his finger in it

[NQAS]

6. Once again, we have qualifiers

Barely hidden?

I don’t think so.

Open fascism.

It’s important to call things what they are.