“Where are you PAPERS?!”

@samueltyler2 No, he really is. And everyone who've[i] never[/i] been to Florida just love him. A lot of people living in trailers and ghetto neighborhoods love him because he creates enemies for them to be angry with. But sentient, critically thinking people? There are whole TikTok channels devoted to the harm he's doing. He's in the headlines negatively every single day and Florida just keeps being the ass-end of the nation.

@Graylight but they elected him by a big margin.

@samueltyler2 They [i]re[/i]-elected him by a wide margin. The first time was a squeak. That's partially on Dems, who ran a muppet-like ex-governor with the charisma of Eeyor. But it's mostly on DeSantis, who gerrymandered in living hell out of the state. In fact, there's a good article on it:
[i]https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-desantis-florida-redistricting-map-scheme[/i]

@Graylight gerrymanderring within a state will not affect the vote for governor.

@samueltyler2 No, yeah, you're essentially right. Many people (and by that I mean professionals who deal in this stuff) suggest that DeSantis is special in two ways. One, he's a Florida boy, so he understands what it means when we say this is the last frontier, the outlaw state. This is the place you come to start over, get lost, try your luck, hit your last option. Folks like that tend to be under-educated (which FL is) and that often leads to misunderstanding and fear, which inevitably lead to blame, resentment and anger. They don't like being told what to do. They like being led, they like someone else saying they'll foot the bill, but they don't want the weight of the big 'ol country coming down on them.

Comes along DeSantis, who calls Florida the Freedom State and tells the citizens they don't have to do [i]anything[/i] they don't want to do, just so long as it's the [i]same [/i]stuff he doesn't want to do. But DeSantis is smart where others aren't; he follows up the rhetoric with clean and tidy legislation. A lot of it. Every week. Makes things seem all legal and professional, even though they aren't.

Add that to the fact we live in the "Blue State Fallacy," which suggests that some key states are turning blue simply because their main metropolitan area is Democratic. That's still a red state, and Orlando is an island in a sea of red. Additionally, he's got many Miami Latinos, whose legacy is one of oppression and overbearance; they're staunchly Republican because that side woos them with dreams of power and independence. Some states are simply stupid enough to hire the very people that'll bleed them dry as their backs are being walked on.

@Graylight bottom line though, he is an evil man!