From the Editorial Board: Republicans need a strong alternative to Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. But Ron DeSantis' meltdown further increases the likelihood of Trump being at the top of the ticket.
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, speaks at a meeting of the conservative group Moms for Liberty in Philadelphia on June 30, 2023.
His environmental record, including protection of the Everglades, is better than many Democratic strongholds, he raised pay for public schoolteachers and he offers most Floridians school choice. Cranes are a prominent part of the skylines in cities like Miami and Tampa, places that are booming as many Americans move south to find lower tax rates and cities that feel safer and friendlier to new businesses. And DeSantis won reelection in 2022 by a stunning 19 percentage points.
But the main problem in DeSantis world has been DeSantis himself. Instead of running on his record in Florida, he’s embroiled himself inagainst Disney, which just happens to be one of Florida’s most important employers. He failed to stand up for the rights and freedoms of the LGBTQ community, which just happens to be one of Florida’s most important populations. And he found himself on the wrong side of an argument over Florida’s teaching of the history of slavery, of all things.
A plurality of Americans believe that discussions of gender and sexual identity with young children should be age-appropriate and involve their parents, at least wherever possible. But DeSantis decided to parlay that into a crude banning of those topics in the classroom, thus turning him into a censor of open discourse and making him look squishy on the importance of free speech.
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