Really great job here, Anthony. A fantastic take-down of one of the most terrible governors in the country who hopefully isn't dumb enough to waste his time campaigning for the GOP nominee in a party that remains unable to give up their idolatry of the monstrous con artist Donald Trump. Keep up the wonderful writing!
One frustrating aspect of this is watching a certain set of libertarians more or less ignore his crackdown on education or, at most, comment on it merely by saying "If we had school choice, this wouldn't be a problem." A lot of that has to do with how much libertarianism has drawn from the right in its recruitment and fundraising over the last decades, and so quite a lot of people in the movement are rather sympathetic to his culture warring. (This is made clearer by the fact that they also tend to talk a lot about the problems of left-wing censoriousness on college campus, and don't just say "school choice.")
— all these policies only apply to taxpayer-funded universities. Surely taxpayers have the right to say “we think it’s harmful to have university departments focused on race and gender, and we refuse to fund them anymore"?
— my understanding is that the bill to require bloggers to report when they get paid to write about public officials never had any backing from DeSantis or GOP power-holders. That it was just a crank bill.
Really great job here, Anthony. A fantastic take-down of one of the most terrible governors in the country who hopefully isn't dumb enough to waste his time campaigning for the GOP nominee in a party that remains unable to give up their idolatry of the monstrous con artist Donald Trump. Keep up the wonderful writing!
One frustrating aspect of this is watching a certain set of libertarians more or less ignore his crackdown on education or, at most, comment on it merely by saying "If we had school choice, this wouldn't be a problem." A lot of that has to do with how much libertarianism has drawn from the right in its recruitment and fundraising over the last decades, and so quite a lot of people in the movement are rather sympathetic to his culture warring. (This is made clearer by the fact that they also tend to talk a lot about the problems of left-wing censoriousness on college campus, and don't just say "school choice.")
Largely agree, of course.
But two quibbles:
— all these policies only apply to taxpayer-funded universities. Surely taxpayers have the right to say “we think it’s harmful to have university departments focused on race and gender, and we refuse to fund them anymore"?
— my understanding is that the bill to require bloggers to report when they get paid to write about public officials never had any backing from DeSantis or GOP power-holders. That it was just a crank bill.