Ron DeSantis said he and his team have “basically moved on” from their fight with Disney. This might've sounded conciliatory, but it's worth a closer look.
Neither he or his voters care about that last one, clearly. Republicans haven’t cared about improving or even maintaining for a long time. Politically, Desantis is right to appeal to his voters by harassing the populations Republicans don’t like, everyone who isn’t them.
It’s all they respond to. Trump took over and won the 2016 primary simply by commiserating with Republican voters on stage about how he’d like to take their protesters around back and beat the shit out of them. Before that, he literally had to hire extras to his events.
Republicans would (and have) gladly vote to lose their own jobs, schools, parks, infrastructure, etc, just to watch their enemies be sad about losing those things too. A race to the bottom. If they could press an “infinite resources for everyone with no downside for anyone” button they wouldn’t, and they’d fight like hell to make sure their enemies never could either.
“and harmed his state’s interests.”
Neither he or his voters care about that last one, clearly. Republicans haven’t cared about improving or even maintaining for a long time. Politically, Desantis is right to appeal to his voters by harassing the populations Republicans don’t like, everyone who isn’t them.
It’s all they respond to. Trump took over and won the 2016 primary simply by commiserating with Republican voters on stage about how he’d like to take their protesters around back and beat the shit out of them. Before that, he literally had to hire extras to his events.
Republicans would (and have) gladly vote to lose their own jobs, schools, parks, infrastructure, etc, just to watch their enemies be sad about losing those things too. A race to the bottom. If they could press an “infinite resources for everyone with no downside for anyone” button they wouldn’t, and they’d fight like hell to make sure their enemies never could either.