Corporate Media Attacks Ron DeSantis. Good!
Many more Florida-style victories lie ahead for American patriotic populism.
This article was published by Newsweek:
https://www.newsweek.com/corporate-media-attacks-ron-desantis-good-opinion-1764430
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to take decisive action against the corruption of big business, thereby earning the ire of the ruling class. Consequently, the catcalls from the legacy corporate media have only grown louder since his overwhelming re-election. DeSantis should wear that scorn as a badge of populist honor.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, a DeSantis ally, announced last week that the Sunshine Sate was pulling out $2 billion from asset manager BlackRock. That firm has morphed into one of the most pernicious institutional forces pushing a radical political agenda upon American businesses.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink acts as an enforcer for leftist ruling class schemes, such as extremist "sustainability" provisions and aggressive corporate intrusion into hot-button social issues that are unrelated to business. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has assailed Fink's tactics: "That's not capitalism, that's abusing the market." Cruz continued, warning that Fink's radical globalist agenda is "destroying jobs, helping America's enemies, and hurting America."
But in Florida, Patronis and DeSantis punch back at these power-hungry multinationals that prioritize the prerogatives of Davos over Daytona Beach. Both Florida leaders just achieved landslide 19% margin victories to re-election, including big wins in the previously Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County. In fact, Florida now has elected Republicans in all statewide offices for the first time since Reconstruction.
At the top of the ticket, DeSantis earned his mandate from the people largely due to his bold willingness to directly challenge powerful interests on behalf of regular Floridians. First, he powerfully repelled the politicized and unscientific COVID tyranny prescribed by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials in Washington, D.C. Instead, DeSantis leaned on the evidence-based medical advice from his own stellar team—including Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who holds twin doctorates from Harvard.
DeSantis has also earned broad popular support for his willingness to thwart big business abuses of Floridians—well before this very welcome recent salvo against BlackRock. Specifically, DeSantis even showed the political backbone to take on traditional Florida powerhouse business entities, pushing back against the political abuses of Big Sugar as well as The Walt Disney Company.
These DeSantis policies have brought legions of refugees fleeing the corruption, high taxes, and COVID tyranny of liberal cities and states. In total, almost 400,000 Americans have moved to Florida since 2020. In addition, DeSantis's Florida has become the preferred destination for top-earners, attracting wealthy Americans at a rate four times that of any other state. Speaking to both native Floridians and newcomers alike, on election night the victorious DeSantis boasted: "Florida is where woke goes to die."
Predictably, DeSantis's success also ushers in the smears of the corrupt corporate media, which stands more than willing to try to tarnish him on behalf of Disney, Fink, and other ruling class oligarchs who properly fear this patriotic populist stalwart. The latest major hit piece comes from The Atlantic, the preferred publication of the country club lounges of places like Greenwich, Connecticut and Potomac, Maryland.
The piece was penned by a dutiful stenographer of Permanent Washington, Mark Leibovich, formerly of The Washington Post and The New York Times. Leibovich kicks off his smear job by regurgitating a disparaging anti-DeSantis remark from "Republican media consultant" Rick Wilson. In what world, exactly, would that descriptor accurately summarize the execrable Wilson? After all, this alum of the sex-scandal disgraced Lincoln Project eagerly and loudly denigrates Republican voters for a living, becoming in recent years a media darling at liberal platforms such as MSNBC and CNN.
Notably, the Atlantic essay does not even pretend to attack DeSantis on substantive public policy grounds. Instead, it focuses on DeSantis's style and supposed lack of interpersonal skills. Leibovich frames the governor as "not a fun and convivial dude." But this aspersion seems totally misplaced as a critique of this self-made man, college athlete, and U.S. Naval officer who has won over voters in five consecutive races for both federal and state office.
But let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that Leibovich's assertion is accurate. So what? With America in deep crisis due to President Joe Biden's radical mismanagement on key issues such as the border and economy, surely competence matters far more than perceived congeniality.
What Leibovich and his sources clearly actually reject is DeSantis's Trumpian refusal to cater to the established political order. The Atlantic piece also quotes GOP establishment grandee Chris Christie, who bemoans: "I don't think Ron hangs out with anybody, from what I can tell." But why would DeSantis want to spend one minute "hanging out" with a disgraced former governor who barely avoided indictment and now sucks up to Beltway politicos as an ABC News analyst?
Any discussion of DeSantis naturally leads to premature analysis of a possible Trump-DeSantis 2024 primary battle for the GOP presidential nomination. Such conjecture makes for tempting clickbait, but no one besides President Trump has entered that field, which likely will not really take shape until well into next year. Moreover, if these two champions of patriotic populism do, in fact, end up in competition, the eventual victor would be far stronger for taking on such a formidable rival.
Presently, Trump remains the foremost leader of the patriotic populist movement, and DeSantis governs as the best elected official in America.
Despite the laughable protestations of fading legacy media platforms, the populist revolt against the American ruling class broadens and strengthens. Many more Florida-style victories lie ahead for American patriotic populism.
Steve Cortes is a former adviser to President Donald Trump.
Florida was a voting cesspool of fraud. Rick Scott and then DeSantis cleaned the mess up. What people don't realize that beside the good policy, if it is a fair election Republican's win. And we as REpublican's need to stop depending on Washington to tell the local people how to run and election dn who to run. Over looked is the fact no matter who the Republican's pick, they will need thick skin to handle the lies
Want more "Florida-style victories? Easy-peasy: every voting precinct has to be designated as a "dual purpose election/deportation center"....staffed by fair minded immigration judges and experienced bus drivers [to man the dozens of buses stationed at each center].