We’ve heard this warning a few times, but it bears repeating: Trump’s not the guy we need to be worried about, it’s the guy who comes after Trump (and I don’t mean Joe Biden, although he has his own problems). Trump, I’m afraid, was merely the person who broke the presidency. Who set the mold for the autocrat to come. And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would be as good a successor to The Donald as anybody.
“DeSantis is God's gift to lawyers,” law professor Bob Jarvis told Skyler Swisher for a story that ran in today’s Orlando Sentinel. "He is interested in playing to the base, owning liberals and trying to position himself for the 2024 presidential election. He doesn't care if laws are constitutional. He doesn't care if laws stand up in court."
That’s led to a raft of legislation that serves no real purpose other than to whip up his base, including the infamous “don’t say gay” bill, the Stop WOKE anti-CRT bill, an unconstitutional anti-riot law, and a “sanctuary cities” ban.
This is classic power politics, the tactics of a man who sees the law as nothing but a tool to get him to the White House. This is what floods school board meetings with hysterical flat earthers and Covid truthers, what jams up the turnstiles of government so bad that soon we’re begging for relief — even if that relief comes from the very movement that drove the hysterics in the first place.
Read God's gift to lawyers at Orlando Sentinel
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