Pierce: The Republican Candidate for Florida Governor Goes to Some Interesting Parties

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The Republican Candidate for Florida Governor Goes to Some Interesting Parties
Rep. Ron DeSantis shares speaking engagements with Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
SEP 10, 2018

Lost in all the completely justified commotion regarding Andrew Gillum's upset win in the Florida gubernatorial primary was the fact that the Republicans nominated a candidate who gives the establishment of that party an even more profound case of the vapors. Adam Putnam, the 44-year-old state agricultural commissioner, spent $30 million on his primary campaign. He had been grooming himself for this job for years. He had the endorsements of many of the most prominent Republican officeholders.

And then he lost, badly, to Congressman Ron DeSantis, a profound Trump loyalist on whose behalf the president* came to Florida to throw one of his now-weekly wankfests. Turns out, there was a reason why DeSantis gave Florida Republicans the shakes. He is more than a bit of a white rider. From The Washington Post.

DeSantis, elected to represent north-central Florida in 2012, appeared at the David Horowitz Freedom Center conferences in Palm Beach, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, said Michael Finch, president of the organization. At the group’s annual Restoration Weekend conferences, hundreds of people gather to hear right-wing provocateurs such as Stephen K. Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Sebastian Gorka sound off on multiculturalism, radical Islam, free speech on college campuses and other issues.

Fellow speakers included a former Google engineer who was fired after arguing that “biological causes” in part explain why there are relatively few women working in tech and leadership; a critic of multiculturalism who has written that “Europe is committing suicide” by welcoming large numbers of refugees and immigrants; and a British media personality who urged the audience to keep the United States from becoming like the United Kingdom, where “discrimination against whites is institutionalized and systemic.”

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A sufficient number of people in this country want to be governed by outright white supremacists to force the rest of us to live under them. Chew on that for a while.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23067179/ron-desantis-florida-governor-white-supremacists/

[The Genealogist]

1. "...gives the establishment of that party an even more profound case of the vapors."

The Republican establishment have "the vapors" because their 50+ year long science project of dog whistling and pandering to lowlife hatemongers and bigots has gone awry. That establishment has encouraged racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and misogyny for years now. But, they encouraged these quietly. Now, gone are the dog whistles and in are the bullhorns. Donald Trump, the inevitable result of the right wing's assault on decency and fairness, leads an army of deplorable Frankenstein's monsters. And the blame for this mess belongs wholly on the doorstep of the Republican party. As usual, they will expect the Democrats to come in and clean up the mess.

[mcar]

2. As usual is right

Democrats come in and clean up the mess, Rs whine and obstruct. Then they claim they can do better and voters fall for it. Lather, rinse, repeat.