The bloom is fully off the rose when it comes to South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, who vetoed her state’s bill banning men from competing in women’s sports despite having promised to sign it. But fellow red state governor Ron DeSantis, a hero for his early lifting of the counterproductive lockdowns that crippled the economies of other states, continues to crush it.
First he announced that Florida was banning critical race theory from classrooms:
“Florida’s civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials, and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like Critical Race Theory and other unsubstantiated theories” DeSantis declared to a round of applause.
“Let me be clear, there is no room in our classroom for things like Critical Race Theory teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” he continued. “So we will invest in actual, solid, true curriculum, and we will be a leader in the development and implementation of a world-class civics curriculum.”
Critical Race Theory, often abbreviated as CRT, is an academic theory which rejects traditional liberal notions of civil rights in favour of critical theory-inspired identity politics.
AdvertisementThe theory rejects concepts such as objective truth, arguing that the way humans perceive reality is through a series of power structures which inform how we think and act. According to proponents of CRT, all white people are racist by definition because they have been raised under the power structure of white supremacy.
Consequentially, CRT proponents argue that any evidence refuting their claims is inherently racist, as what is considered “evidence” or “truth” is not objective, and is instead a byproduct of the white supremacist power structures which pervade society as a whole. White people who reject claims of racism by CRT advocates, according to the theory, are expressing “white fragility.”
Now DeSantis has vowed that Florida will not allow any unconstitutional “vaccine passport” nonsense:
Once again Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outlines his specific direction with the COVID vaccine program. As DeSantis noted in his media statements today “we want to provide it for all, but mandate it for none.” Explaining the Florida legislative intent on further COVID laws the Florida governor went on to say the vaccine passport issue “has huge privacy implications”, and he does not support any mandated vaccine passport that would impede on the liberty and freedom of Florida residents.
Meanwhile, Florida Wuhan coronavirus cases continue to trend down, while those in New York and New Jersey are spiking.
Many other state governor’s could learn a great deal from how DeSantis has governor Florida.
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Texas should follow DeSantis’ lead a bit more closely. I’m glad the statewide mask mandate was repealed (though it never should’ve been imposed to begin with), but local exceptions are still allowed in taxpayer-funded institutions like my employer. Ticks me off that I still have to wear this stupid face-diaper at work.
The number of trustworthy GOP women can be counted on the fingers of one hand, but Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Marsha Blackburn are a good start.
More great actions by DeSantis, he is definitely getting better and better. If Trump does not win the nomination in 24, I think DeSantis will. I dont agree that Noems veto is as bad as it appears, I think she had some reasons, that she did not explain very well. But she was in a small state anyway, DeSantis was always the more important of the 2.
Of course Bush 2 was gov of TX, but Texans have always been strange, even stranger than those from FL, although I admire them. But the greatest repub of them all, Reagan, was governor of a large state, CA when it was still a conservative swing state.
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