On MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes had on leftist New York Instances opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie to kvetch over the leftist media’s favourite subject: Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and his efforts to scrub up his state’s schooling system and forestall kids from being racially and sexually indoctrinated. Bouie for his half got here up with a conspiracy principle that DeSantis is simply combating “tradition wars” to distract from his unpopular and “very radical financial agenda.”  

“Ron DeSantis has clearly made himself form of the nation’s foremost conservative tradition warrior. The assaults on schooling, legal guidelines just like the Cease Woke Act, so on and so forth,” Bouie claimed. “And that is actually how he’s constructing his nationwide model as a politician, as a possible contender, for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.”

Bouie then made the ridiculous declare that DeSantis is “making an attempt to primarily triangulate round, downplay” his unpopular fiscal insurance policies. 

That is laughable on its face since DeSantis not too long ago received reelection in a landslide, beating his Democrat opponent by 19 factors and taking practically 60 p.c of the vote. 

Bouie has by no means been capable of settle for DeSantis’s electoral victories. In 2018, he forged doubt on the primary DeSantis victory by crying voter suppression. 

Persevering with on his conspiracy pushed rant, Bouie bemoaned how DeSantis “hasn’t expanded the Medicaid program underneath the Reasonably priced Care Act, leaving a whole bunch of hundreds of Floridians with out medical insurance” and cried that he helps “slashing Social Safety and restructuring Medicare.”

“I feel the assaults on LGBT individuals are very severe and should be responded to and countered and handled,” Bouie proclaimed. 

Doubling down on his conspiracy principle, Bouie once more insisted that “DeSantis is enjoying a bigger political recreation right here and has every thing to do with discovering a solution to attraction to voters with out revealing a really radical financial agenda.” 

DeSantis has such a radical financial agenda that he received reelection in a swing state by close to file margins and enjoys broad reputation in his state. Bouie ought to discover a new job.

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MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes
2/14/2023
8:54:34 p.m. Japanese

JAMELLE BOUIE: Ron DeSantis has clearly made himself form of the nation’s foremost conservative tradition warrior. The assaults on schooling, legal guidelines just like the Cease Woke Act, so on and so forth. And that is actually how he’s constructing his nationwide model as a politician, as a possible contender, for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. However I feel that we have now to grasp that with DeSantis, he’s additionally making an attempt to primarily triangulate round, downplay his most unpopular view, which need to do with the position of presidency, with the position of the social insurance coverage state, Medicare, Social Safety, Medicaid. 

Florida, for instance, hasn’t expanded the Medicaid program underneath the Reasonably priced Care Act, leaving a whole bunch of hundreds of Floridians with out medical insurance. DeSantis has written in his books and stated as a candidate for the Home of Representatives that he can be desirous about slashing Social Safety and restructuring Medicare, these types of issues. 

These are unpopular, these are so unpopular that if folks bear in mind, President Trump when he was a candidate, explicitly downplayed and stated I’d not do this form of factor. Though I do assume the assaults on schooling, I feel the assaults on LGBT individuals are very severe and should be responded to and countered and handled. I feel it is also necessary to not lose sight of the truth that DeSantis is enjoying a bigger political recreation right here and has every thing to do with discovering a solution to attraction to voters with out revealing a really radical financial agenda.