Unpopular opinion, but true. We live in Florida and have made the decision to move, but, that doesn't negate the fact that DeSantis didn't foment a coup and he's not an illegal dictator. He barely won his first election, but he gained 600,000 more votes over that in his second election.
I've lived in 5 different states in my adult lifetime and he's by far the most popular politician I've ever seen. The people of Florida, mostly, love him. I do not. Therefore, it's probably not the place for me.
I tell people from outside of the state to point at Florida and make the decision not to become like it, but demanding DeSantis' overthrow from afar(as I often hear) isn't really democratic.
@BE @mloxton No one's demanding his overthrow. And yes, of course, literally Nichols is correct. But this is a waste of space in a supposedly reputable publication to make that banal point. The moral imperative is still to write about far right authoritarian policies and individuals as dangerous threats to democracy. And there are millions of people in Florida who do not want this and are seeing their rights as citizens stripped away.
There are, actually, plenty of people hoping for his overthrow, talking about it and wondering why Florida hasn't risen up against him. Sorry, but he just overwhelmingly won an election. He has to be dealt with within the law.
In no way saying that *you* said that, but I see it every day. I was making a broader point.
I'm not defending the article. There's a growing authoritarian movement that the nation's not dealing with effectively.
Yes, millions of people voted against it, and DeSantis, but more voted for it. By a lot.
My point isn't that it's right. It's clearly not. My point is that it's what the people who voted for him want, and it's what they want for the nation as a whole.
