Does DeSantis have a 1950's vision for America?

[BartenderElite]

I'm genuinely trying to figure out what he's doing, since he could be the next President. And I should preface this one by saying that I don't dislike him. In many areas, he seems to have a common sense approach, and seems intelligent.

But his "war on woke" veers into some strange territory, and into areas that seem more intrusive and controlling for someone looking to be a small-government advocate. The stuff with Disney & with colleges and schools seems more like conservative activism, rather than respecting the rights of businesses and academic leaders.

I'm sure that some would respond that Disney and some of those academic institutions overstepped and were too "activist" in their own way. But some of what he is doing goes against the basic conservative POV regarding government. It's a 'big brother' philosophy.

Beyond that, it seems like a focused effort to return American morality to where it was in the 1950's. Gender identity, inclusion, teaching black history, LGBTQ. Do people really want to go back to a time when some of their fellow citizens had to hide & lie about who they were? Where conformity was a top priority, and anything out of the "norm" was shunned and even reviled?

 

[BidenPresident]

I'm genuinely trying to figure out what he's doing, since he could be the next President. And I should preface this one by saying that I don't dislike him. In many areas, he seems to have a common sense approach, and seems intelligent.

But his "war on woke" veers into some strange territory, and into areas that seem more intrusive and controlling for someone looking to be a small-government advocate. The stuff with Disney & with colleges and schools seems more like conservative activism, rather than respecting the rights of businesses and academic leaders.

I'm sure that some would respond that Disney and some of those academic institutions overstepped and were too "activist" in their own way. But some of what he is doing goes against the basic conservative POV regarding government. It's a 'big brother' philosophy.

Beyond that, it seems like a focused effort to return American morality to where it was in the 1950's. Gender identity, inclusion, teaching black history, LGBTQ. Do people really want to go back to a time when some of their fellow citizens had to hide & lie about who they were? Where conformity was a top priority, and anything out of the "norm" was shunned and even reviled?

DeSantis went to two ivy league schools. But his platform is attacking education. Go figure.

 

[gfm7175]

I generally agree with DeSantis regarding moral/social issues (aka the distraction that the Uniparty uses to keep up the pretense of separate parties existing).

Where DeSantis loses me is the rich elitist globalists who are funding him, and the RINO establishment (and bought out conservative punditry) who are endorsing him and managing him and his "book tour" (aka the pretense for his 'not-yet-officially-campaigning' campaign for President). For those who don't already believe me, the "big tell" with him and who is supporting him will be whenever anything regarding national economic policy and foreign policy come up. He will avoid talking about those topics as much as possible (including but not limited to: bad trade deals, the destruction of the American manufacturing workforce and the outsourcing of it to China and other cheap labor countries, implementation of protectionist tariffs, not falling for the "SLAVA UKRAINI!!!" BS, etc etc), favoring speaking about "social issues" and being a strong "social justice warrior" instead.

TLDR: If you want Trump's nationalist energy policies (aka low gas, food, heating/cooling prices, low inflation, return of manufacturing jobs), then you have to support Trump, plain and simple. DeSantis is not Trump. Nikki Haley is not Trump. Judas "Thirty" Pence is not Trump. There is no Trump without Trump.