Ron DeSantis's war on Disney points to an ominous GOP future

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Greg Sargent
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JD Vance is calling for the bureaucracy to be purged of liberals.

Ron DeSantis is using state power to punish Disney's stance on LGBT rights.

Republicans are threatening companies that voice support for African American voting rights.

It's a movement:

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/desantis-war-on-disney-gop-future/…
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10:14 AM · Apr 21, 2022

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So what does this tell us about a possible GOP future? Well, on multiple fronts, the Republican Party is growing much more inclined to use state power to fight the culture wars, well beyond just DeSantis.

In an interview published this week, J.D. Vance told Vanity Fair that he envisions a kind of “de-Baathification” or a “de-woke-ification” of the “institutions of the left.”

Vance, who’s running for Senate in Ohio in the New Right nationalist vein, said that if Donald Trump is elected president, he should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat” and “every civil servant in the administrative state,” and “replace them with our people.”

It’s worth taking this seriously. Other members of that New Right movement recently told me they envision a ramped up use of the state to impose a post-liberal moral vision, justified by hyperbolic visions of the supposedly hegemonic power of the left over our institutions.

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[Indykatie]

1. The Current GQP Will End Up Losing the Long Term Support of the Chamber of Comm.

That's a good thing.

[CrispyQ]

2. I'll put my money on the corporations. The only color they care about is green.

Some companies will be slower than others, but corporate board rooms see that the American population is becoming more diverse every year & they're not going to want to alienate all those potential customers. That's my take.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. But if it becomes more profitable

for corporations to go along with these lunatics, then they will abandon democracy without a second thought. After all, some of their most lucrative business dealings are in counties with dictators.

[FloridaBlues]

4. Democrats probably shouldn't take this lightly. There are more red states currently controlled by

Far right republicans. It sounds crazy but we thought Trump would never win either. The drumbeat has started and a lot of people are very dissatisfied with how things are going.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[2naSalit]

6. "Politics is local".

[MOMFUDSKI]

7. I heard this reported on my TV Tube today

and what was SO obnoxious was the phrase "California values" uttered by deathsantis.

[Norbert]

8. Gee I'm glad this is the party of limited government, otherwise...