Gingrich decries ‘insane’ Florida bill for register of bloggers critical of DeSantis

Newt Gingrich: ‘The idea that bloggers criticising a politician should register with the government is insane.’ Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A Florida bill that would require bloggers who write about the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, to register with the state proved a step too far even for the godfather of far-right Republicanism, the former US House speaker Newt Gingrich.

“The idea that bloggers criticising a politician should register with the government is insane,” Gingrich wrote on Twitter.