As it stands today, it is not in the cards for DeSantis to become the next American president. After he announced his candidacy on Twitter with major technical problems, many believed that his election campaign had failed before it had really started. Nevertheless, he has excelled on home soil. DeSantis claims that the former swing state of Florida is today the vanguard of the conservative movement in the United States. It is true that DeSantis has “led the pack” with conservative legislative changes in education and the rights of LGBT+ people, writes the political website FiveThirtyEight. For so long, DeSantis has waited to criticize Trump, even though they are opponents in the primary election. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP But when it comes to gun use and abortion, both of which are high on the priority list of conservative voters, the Florida governor has so far been more lenient than most red states. So what does DeSantis stand for, really? And what does Florida tell us about the future of other red states? “Anti-woke” curriculum about the slave past To follow up the “Stop woke” law that was passed last year, DeSantis and his supporters have approved a new curriculum in Florida. Among the learning points there is that the US’s “slaves developed skills which, in some cases, could be used to their personal advantage”. “Read banned books,” reads the earring of a university professor in Coral Gables, Florida. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell / AP The new expectations for education were unanimously supported by the Florida State Board of Education. When the new curriculum was announced, Harris immediately made plans to travel to Florida, write The New York Times. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP But critical voices are asking the state to change the new curriculum, because it “only tells half the story and half the truth”, reports Politico. It is this in particular that Vice President Kamala Harris reacts to. – How is it that someone can say that there was any advantage whatsoever in being treated as less than a human being, at the time when these heinous acts were carried out? – Hits quite a few Under DeSantis, Florida has banned the teaching of critical race theory, which in academic circles recognizes that structural racism exists in the United States. He has previously told CNN that this theory will teach pupils that “the country is a mess and that our institutions are illegitimate”. Eirik Løkke is a consultant at Civita. Photo: Tobias Prosch Simonsen – He will appeal to those who believe that the USA stands for something positive. That the USA’s history, with its negative sides, has in spite of everything stood for something good, says US expert Eirik Løkke in Civita to news. – They are hired by a woke movement which is often very loud and which is often based in Ivy league universities. They talk about “the USA knows we are guilty of everything that is bad and difficult”. The Woke movement sees DeSantis as a threat to the United States he wants, says Løkke, and refers to the speech he gave when he was newly elected in Florida: “Florida is where the woke come to die”. – This affects quite a few Americans. At the end of July, DeSantis has 20 percent of the vote in the Republican opinion polls, behind Trump who has almost 51. Photo: OCTAVIO JONES / Reuters Ban on teaching children about gender identity Once upon a time, he is said to have rejected the party’s conservative views on sexuality, according to the New York Times Magazine. Now identity politics in Florida has become part of DeSantis’ brand. As part of the controversial education reform, he has also introduced a ban on the teaching of sexual orientation and issues of gender identity for all age groups. Florida has one of the strictest state laws in the country when it comes to such education, and has been used as an example in that sense by other states, writes FiveThirtyEight further. Participants in this year’s pride parade in Florida also demonstrated against DeSantis’ law changes. Photo: Jefferee Woo / AP Critics have called the new law change the “Ikkje sei homo” law (“Don’t say gay”). Several organizations in the USA have since warned black and queer people against traveling to the state. The NAACP says Florida is now “openly hostile” to them. An elementary school teacher, Meghan Mayer, spoke to CNN after she had to take down the pride flag that hung in her classroom in Sarasota, Florida. – I think it is an attack. Not only on teachers, especially teachers who are LGBT+, but it is an attack on our children, she said. – When you marry one child, you marry all children. Will turn the US into a big Florida Should he defy the polls and become the next president of the US, DeSantis says he will transform the entire country as he has transformed Florida. This is not a realistic ambition, believes Løkke. – The USA is too big, too diverse, and there are too many competing interests. DeSantis has previously said that he will try to make the entire United States like Florida if he becomes president. Photo: JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP – States like California and New York have too much resistance. But it is clear that he can make an impact if he were to become president. But for now, it seems unlikely that he will be elected to the chief’s job, says Løkke further. – All these indictments and the questions and lawsuits around take everything out of oxygen. So there are no other candidates who get the chance to speak but Trump. – But even those who support Trump do not dislike DeSantis. So he has some kind of plan, for now, to be the one to take over Trump’s voters when Trump disappears, which is something he hopes for.
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