Nikki Haley's swing at DeSantis' 'Don't Say Gay' law is an early sign that the GOP's 2024 race is only going to get uglier. (via MaddowBlog)
It was about a year ago when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what critics labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law. To hear the Republican governor tell it, the measure was a modest education reform.as the proposal worked its way through the GOP-led state legislature, the proposal “uses intentionally vague language to outlaw a huge amount of speech about LGBTQ people, families, and issues — not just sex — in every grade.
Late last week, on the heels of Nikki Haley launching her presidential campaign, the South Carolina Republican made clear that she wasn’t impressed with the Floridian’s policy — not because it was an example of the government trying to stifle speech in educational settings in order to punish the LGBTQ community, but because Haley saw it as tooFormer South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday criticized the so-called Don’t Say Gay measure signed into law by Florida Gov.
There’s no great mystery as to the political motivations behind such rhetoric: DeSantis is widely seen as a likely presidential candidate, and Haley is taking early steps to position herself as a stronger candidate. The South Carolinian is basically telling GOP primary voters not to be too impressed by the Floridian’s notorious anti-LGBTQ measure — because she’d go in an even more reactionary direction.
What we’re witnessing, in other words, is one of the earliest signs of an inescapable race to the bottom: the process through which ambitious Republicans scramble to appear even more radical than their radical rivals, hoping to impress the GOP base by staking out new positions based on the idea that far-right ideas simply aren’t far enough to the right.
Haley offered a classic example of the phenomenon, but she has some company. Donald Trump, for example, has recently begun
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