Gov. Ron DeSantis is playing a game of smoke and mirrors with Floridians. His announced goal is to cure Florida of the reported ailments of the border crisis, election fraud, critical race theory, “trendy ideologies” in education like gender ideology and queer theory, indoctrinators hiding on every corner and in every classroom, diversity initiatives at public universities.
The list goes on.
Part of the public eats up what he’s saying and cheers him on. The other, including the Miami Herald Editorial Board, is outraged with the almost daily barrage of manufactured crises (save for the one at the border). As the Editorial Board recently argued, DeSantis is a master of distraction. What gets lost in all that smoke he creates are the true impacts of DeSantis’ policies.
