DeSantis’s Faux “Racism” In Florida May Sink His 2024 GOP Presidential Campaign

Let me make this clear right off of the bat. I used the word faux in the title for a good reason. I don’t believe for a minute that GOP Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a virulent racist. In fact, personally I don’t believe that Ron DeSantis stands for anything at all.

From where I’m sitting, DeSantis is a soulless, amoral, cowardly, sniveling politician who holds a wet finger up to see where the wind is blowing, and then runs up to show he’s leading the way. DeSantis doesn’t have any strong prejudices for the simple reason that all minorities are equal if whacking them over the head with a mallet advances his political agenda.

In 2020 the white population of Florida was 52.4%, down from 58% in 2010. The Hispanic population in 2021 was at 26.7%, up from 16.1% in 2010. And the African American population stands at 15.3%m just about stable. Which makes the African American community a prime target for DeSanctis’s moronic and largely useless racial grandstanding.

For instance, the shrimpy little wimp DeSantis stood behind a podium, surrounded by burly officers in blue, and proudly announced the Florida Voting Fraud Police Unit. They were aimed solely at black voters who had had their voting rights restored, but DeSantis claimed had not fulfilled their obligations. Pissantis proudly proclaiimed that there had already been 20 arrests made!, and that prison terms were expected. It was all bullshit, every case that has come up has fallen apart and been thrown out of court. But the media hype was made.

Next the sniveling shrimp went after advance credit African American Studies courses being offered in high schools. He vetoed them from the curriculum on the grounds that they were politicized, and had no educational value. The problem there is that these were purely elective courses! White students weren’t required to take the courses for graduation. Just as with the Voter Fraud Police, it was all bullshit media hype to play to the base.

And now DeSantis is going after state universities and colleges, including community and junior colleges, trying to restrict what African American history will be taught in higher education. Anything that offends the sensitive delicate snowflake fee-fees of inbred redneck will be verboten.

All of which is a potential slow building nuclear disaster for DeSanctis’s 2024 GOP presidential campaign. Because the United States isn’t Florida. Florida has a 15% black population. But now let’s look at Georgia. Let’s look at Pennsylvania. Let’s look at Michigan. Let’s look at Wisconsin. Let’s look at Minnesota. All of those have a larger African American population than Florida, and none of those constituents are going to look kindly on what DeSantis is wroughting in Florida and what it means for the nation as a whole.

But that’s grist for the national general election, and DeSantis may well never get that far. because right now there is a whole murderers row of potential GOP candidates out there, thinking about throwing their hats in the ring for 2024. Like Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and John Bolton. And all of them would be overjoyed to stand there on a GOP debate stage and rip DeSantis to shreds over his racist antics in Florida, to try to enhance their own street creds in the African American community, which the GOP is desperate to make inroads into. And you can flat out bet on Traitor Tot being the first one to bellow that DeSantis is a neo Nazi racist!

And DeSantis’s pithy, cutting, insightful response? We’ve already seen it. We’ve already seen it. When DeSantis was running for reelection for Governor last year, his opponent, Democrat Charlie Crist asked a question in their debate that was right out of Politics 101. Right now, here tonight, can you assure the voters of Florida that if you’re reelected, you promise to serve out your entire four year term? Which was greeted by a DeSantis deer-in-the-headlights-look, and more than 30 seconds of stunned silence before DeSantis finally stammered out a lame bullshit response. This guy is so not ready for prime time.

Look, I don’t know who, if anybody DeSantis has running his national campaign strategy. But apparently, whomever it is has his head so far up his ass that he can see his lungs. In a sane presidential campaign, the minute DeSantis won the election, he would have been advised to immediately start pivoting to more centrist positions to attract national voters. And instead DeSantis is continuing to run a racist, divisive agenda, as though this is going to appeal to the rest of the country. And in doing so, he’s putting a target on his back for his primary opponents.

It’s not like DeSantis has a stellar list of accomplishments to run on here. After all, Florida is near the bottom of the nation in Covid infections and deaths. And last year he picked a useless fight with the state’s largest private employer, Disney, over gay rights. And while his potential GOP opponents may secretly agree with him, that won’t stop them from lambasting him for his extreme positions, while coaching their own extreme positions in kinder, softer, gentler language.

Every time Ron Pissantis opens his mouth, hade just makes it more and more clear that he doesn’t have the calm, strategic thinking to run a successful national presidential campaign. Don’t think for a ,inure that his challengers won’t use his ridiculous Top Gov! ad, with his wimpy ass strutting across a tarmac in a flight jacket and aviator sunglasses against him, to show how shallow and facetious he is. And while he may be great at beating down on minorities that can’t topple him, he’s already shown that he just doesn’t have the chops to get into the arena with the big boys.