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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@ThePlumLineGS
May 30 • 7 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
With DeSantis vowing to "destroy leftism in America," it's worth noting that when it comes to destroying leftism, he's actually pretty incompetent at it.

1) His own memoir's boasts about attacking Disney handed it potent ammo in its lawsuit against him:

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2) DeSantis's own memoir repeatedly admits that he weaponized the state against Disney for criticizing "don't say gay." Disney extensively cites his book in its lawsuit against him:

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3) Over and over, DeSantis's efforts to wield state power against the leftist enemy have been a flop. His migrant flight stunt was a fiasco and he hasn't attempted one since. His vaunted voter-fraud police couldn't find any voter fraud:

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4) The migrant flight stunt was supposed to "own the libs." But all it ended up "owning" were Florida taxpayers:

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5) On another front, @billscher documents the ways in which DeSantis "is not a competent governor."

"Short-term politics, not long-term prosperity, is the throughline of the DeSantis record."

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@billscher 6) Meanwhile, the book-ban frenzy that DeSantis unleashed has encouraged self-appointed power-mad local commissars of book-purging to go hunting for stacks of books to get removed. The result: Terrible national press and a liberal counter-mobilization:
@billscher 7) When you govern to thrill the Musk/Twitter and Fox audiences (DeSantis gave Fox the exclu on voting law signing and leaked video of migrant flights to Fox) eventually the stunts implode in on themselves. His failures have given Trump ammo against him.

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Jun 1
A remarkable thing just happened in a deep red Florida county: For hours on end, teachers, parents, and kids pushed back ferociously against right wing attacks on "woke indoctrination" in their schools.

Ordinary parents everywhere are saying: Enough. 1/

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Here in Hernando County, a teacher was punished for showing a Disney movie with a gay character. DeSantis won it by 40 points.

Yet at a school board meeting this week, parents and kids powerfully defended LGBT and teachers under attack from the right. 2/

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One teacher told the board that the climate of rage created by the right is driving him out of the profession.

Another teacher said: “I have never seen such fear from my colleagues as I have in the last two months."

Numerous teachers are resigning. 3/

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May 31
MAGA leaders like Lauren Boebert are raging because the debt limit deal isn't cruel enough to food stamp recipients. That bodes badly for what's to come. The GOP will have an opening to demand *another* expansion of work requirements in just a few months:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
Thanks to the new work requirements for food stamps in the debt limit bill, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of not getting food assistance, according to the @CenterOnBudget. But MAGA Republicans see this as vastly insufficient:

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@CenterOnBudget Here's the problem: Republicans will have an opening to push for another expansion of work requirements on food stamps in the coming farm bill debate. Dems tell me they fear this could get very ugly. This isn't over. Far from it:

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May 25
Target's surrender to MAGA rage is alarming, because the company admitted to backing down in the face of threats of violence. When reactionary culture warriors resort to extreme measures to thwart recognition of trans people, capitulation isn't an option:
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Ugly trend:

*Vile smear campaign against Target for selling trans clothes

*DeSantis punishing Disney for opposing "don't say gay"

*Vicious attacks on Bud Light for recognizing trans people

What they really can't stand is the reality of social change:

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One of the right's biggest lies in the culture wars is that "woke corporate elites" are scheming to force social liberalism on oppressed conservative majorities. In reality corporations are trying to navigate cultural change that's already happening:

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May 23
Biden should make it 100% clear he's ready to protect the country from GOP extortion. He shouldn't preemptively discredit the 14th amendment answer. Fear of SCOTUS can't dictate strategy. That only reinforces the cycle of abuse Dems are trapped in here:
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There's no need to presume in advance that SCOTUS would rule against Biden. @RepRaskin offers three reasons here.

Biden can't let SCOTUS “intimidate the other branches into not following the text and clear meaning of the Constitution," Raskin says:

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@RepRaskin Would SCOTUS help the GOP wreck the economy amid its legitimization crisis? Maybe. But if not, the payoff would be big.

“A favorable ruling or even a decision that courts should stay out could nullify the threat of future extortion," @dorfonlaw tells us.

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May 19
Let's be clear: Marjorie Taylor Green and other Republicans are desperately *hoping* for a surge in migrants after Title 42. Now that it hasn't happened, they're simply pretending it has. Greene even timed her impeachment clown show to this invented surge:
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This is comical: Numerous Republicans have responded to the failure of the migrant surge to materialize by simply pretending it actually did happen.

I've collected some examples of this pattern here. The clowning is quite impressive:

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Marjorie Taylor Greene was salivating at the end of Title 42. She predicted an "Imminent Invasion!" She told Kevin McCarthy that this could be a good hook for impeaching DHS chief Mayorkas.

When the surge didn't happen, she called for impeaching Biden:

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May 17
BREAKING: Florida parents and writers just filed a lawsuit against book bans in a pro-Trump county in the Florida panhandle, arguing that they're unconstitutional. If successful, this could provide a weapon against reactionary school book bans everywhere:
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These moms are suing along with writers and @PENamerica. The moms want their kids exposed to ideas the censors decree are unsuitable.

“This case may place constitutional limits on the authority of school boards to remove books from school libraries.”

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@PENamerica This school board in the Florida panhandle removed books like:

"And Tango Makes Three," about male penguins raising a chick

"When Aiden Became a Brother," about a transgender kid

The lawsuit argues these and others were removed for ideological reasons:

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