(Opinion) The editor of The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, is already calling him the future of conservatism.
At the conservative NatCon3 conference, he earned a standing ovation “for speaking candidly about things he’s actually done as governor of Florida to advance conservative goals.”
“It was refreshing to hear a leader challenge the cult of punditry,” the author judges of the governor’s critical assessment of his handling of the pandemic.
At another point in the speech, Dreher admits he wanted to stand up and applaud when the speaker explained “how conservatives must overcome their reflex to pander to big business.”
Regarding Big Tech, DeSantis went so far as to assert that “they are the de facto enforcers of the regime’s ideology.”
Whether or not he will one day run for the White House, Dreher concludes that DeSantis embodies what the entire Republican Party should aspire to.
He is praised for “common sense populism” and for standing up for the little guy against the elites and the public and private institutions they run, not just rhetorically but through legislative and policy action.
DeSantis has recently made headlines after his state sent 50 immigrants on a free flight to the luxury destination of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
“Martha’s Vineyard residents overwhelmingly support illegal immigration and demand more diversity. Governor DeSantis was kind enough to honor their wishes,” spokeswoman Christina Pushaw said Thursday.
With humor, Tristan Justice in The Federalist suggests ten other destinations to which the illegal immigrants demanded by the left can be sent, from the parapet of their upscale neighborhoods where they have no business being.
Ideas such as “Mark Zuckerberg’s house,” “Biden’s beach house in Delaware,” and “Beverly Hills,” among others, come up.
The political climate in the U.S. continues to be shaped by the midterm elections in November.
In this context, Victoria Marshall publishes an extensive commentary in The Federalist denouncing the way Big Tech is planning to manipulate these elections.
She recalls that networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok can control “the flow of information” that reaches voters, which greatly impacts election results.
Many of the major networks announced before the elections that they would set up systems to detect false news that could influence the outcome.
But that’s exactly what Marshall denounces, citing several past examples in which the influence of these networks has been used to censor information that could hurt Democrats.