Florida governor Ron DeSantis cracks downs on voting and classroom free speech — and offers Pennsylvania a scary sneak peak at a 2024 presidential race to the bottom, writes Will_Bunch.
“That is against the law, and now they’re gonna pay the price for it,” DeSantis declared of 20 Floridians — almost all from Democratic strongholds such as Broward County, where his campaign-rally-style announcement was staged, or Miami-Dade — accused of casting ballots despite a law barring them because they’d been convicted of murder or sexual assault.
But the event and its stench of “law and order” intimidation revealed so much more through what was left unsaid. Such as the fact that DeSantis’ Office of Election Crimes and Security — like so much that the Florida governor does, a dangerous escalation of the GOP’s long-running war on voting rights into straight-up authoritarian territory — has spent $3.9 million in taxpayer dollars to find alleged fraudof the 11 million votes cast in the Sunshine State.
But arguably more outrageous is the way that Team DeSantis is less exposing a systematic problem — actual voting fraud in America is
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