(Not so semi) fascism alert

[babylonsister]

https://digbysblog.net/2022/09/01/not-so-semi-fascism-alert/

(Not so semi) fascism alert
Published by digby on September 1, 2022
Trump 2.0 rolls around in the mud and loves it



Bookmark this for when someone tries to tell you that DeSantis is somehow better than Trump. There is no daylight between them when it comes to lying and character assassination. Popular Information reports:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), his campaign, and the Florida Republican Party have launched a coordinated attack on Karla Hernández, the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Florida. They claim Hernández, as president of the United Teachers of Dade (UTD) union, “protected a sexual predator for years and accompanied him through numerous investigations into his sexual assaults of multiple students.” This claim, Popular Information has learned, is false.

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This is DeSantis road testing his Orbanesque modern fascism attacking institutions to see how much the public will tolerate. Teachers are on his list because parents have been programmed into believing that the schools were closed not because a novel virus caused a global pandemic that was filling up hospitals and morgues all over the world but because lazy pedophile teachers wanted to hang out at home and eat bon bons.

This point can’t be made enough:

Link to tweet

DeSantis targets teachers because they are educated, mostly female, members of a public employee union who often vote for Democrats. He’s leveraging the frustration parents felt over the school closings to do it. And he’s going as dirty as it gets, pushing this grotesque “grooming” smear which has to be one of the grossest attacks I’ve ever seen. Sickening.

[Midnight Writer]

1. He is a psycho who will attack anyone who doesn't support him. He wants to be "cult leader".

TFG hath shown him The Way.

[babylonsister]

2. So many people like him here in FL. I

don't see the attraction.