Dubbed a mini-Trump at the beginning of his career, for his eagerness to imitate every gesture of his mentor, Ronald Dion DeSantis climbed positions in American politics until reaching the governorship of Florida in 2019.
However, on his way to aspiring to the White House, he began to gradually move away from his preceptor until breaking with him and challenging the aspirations of the "orange" tycoon to return to the oval office.
The Florida Governor recently announced through the social network Twitter that he would launch his candidacy for the presidency, but the promoted event was a resounding failure.
The Twitter Spaces platform crashed before DeSantis had a chance to be interviewed by Elon Musk for the official launch of his campaign. The hundreds of thousands of people connected for 25 minutes barely heard a few choppy sentences.
It seems that Elon Musk is not very good at launching. Not long ago, SpaceX's Starship, the "most powerful reusable rocket in history," exploded a few minutes after liftoff.
Who is this gentleman, who bills himself as the "American resurgence candidate"? Remember that "America," for them, is only north of the Rio Bravo; the rest is "backyard."
Despite the rumors on his somewhat obscure family heritage, it it his record as governor, and the "contributions to justice" and "equity" he has made in Florida what catches our attention.
Among the most outstanding moments of his tenure, we could cite a few: he proposed banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Florida universities; he legislated to force the registration of any blogger who writes about the state Governor, his cabinet or legislators; he signed a law allowing carrying guns without a state permit; he endorsed another law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy; he eliminated unanimous jury decisions for death sentences; he denied state agencies and local governments permission to invest public money in any kind of initiative to protect the environment, among others.
However, so far, the non plus ultra of his governmental actions is the new immigration law, considered the harshest one on this issue in the country.
The legal barbarism requires private companies with 25 or more employees to verify the immigration status of their workers, and obliges hospitals to ask on their admission forms whether the patient is a U.S. citizen, a legal resident or a foreigner without authorization to be in the country.
As if it was not enough, in order to portray himself as "the toughest of the tough," the presidential hopeful vetoes health mandates on COVID-19, eliminates in-state college tuition for DACA-benefited immigrants, and bans the use of TikTok, and so on.
Moreover, the state of Florida has just democratically passed an election bill to ensure that Ron DeSantis does not have to resign his office to run in the 2024 election.
Extremism is no longer shy; it shows its face in the open. The face of plausible deniability that allowed denying knowledge or responsibility for any reprehensible action by the government is now a thing of the past.
(Translated by ESTI)
