Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waging a war on history. The GOP’s aspiring presidential candidate saw how effectively Donald Trump tapped into white conservatives’ fears of demographic change and seems to want to use that same tactic to catapult himself into the White House. In 2021 and 2022, DeSantis championed the smugly named “Stop WOKE […]
DeSantis’ daredevil (and dumb) canyon jump
By John Young Vindictive. Vengeful. Vituperative. Vitriolic. Vainglorious. Venal. Volatile. That’s just from the V section for Ron DeSantis. Not “visionary.” Not “virtuous.” Just mean. Tragically, his style of spite sells to some in the age of Trump. As New York Times columnist (and Reagan conservative) Bret Stephens quips, “It takes a creep to beat […]
The Real Reason Disney Is Defying DeSantis
A corporation does not have morals—it has a bottom line. Disney’s lawsuit against Florida is more about being able to reap profits while underpaying workers than it is about protecting LGBTQ communities.
Young column: ‘“CRT! ESG! DEI! Hut one! Hut two! ‘Woke’!”
Acronyms like “Woke” loose their meaning without a proper context.