I let Ron DeSantis sneak past me once. Won't be doing that again. DMs for speaking engagements, interviews and literary folks.
Jul 25, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Are you shocked by @GovRonDeSantis willingness to minimize America's "peculiar" history with slavery? You shouldn't be. He wrote extensively about it in his 2011 Dreams from our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of @BarackObama Take a journey with me. 1/11
If you're following along at home, here's the book count. If we are lucky we will get @esglaude @nhannahjones @MarvinDunn4 @queenie4rmnola @BrandtRobinson @tomricks1 @ruthbenghiat and other historians to weigh in. 2/11
May 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is the Senior Chancellor at @EducationFL and he is very vocally opposed to diversity, inclusion, equity and pretty much anything else the "left" values. So under his leadership what "classical aims" have been restored? 1/3
Well first, in Florida approved curriculum, the federal government is being framed as an occupying force in Southern states. This ideology has directly led to things like #WACO and the #OklahomaCityBombing
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
As we build up to Ron’s big announcement, talking heads, pendants and columnists are opining about him, his motives and his chances. From my personal experience with him and my take on his various musings - 🧵
Ron believes the Constitution is a covenant with God. He believes that covenant is in peril. And he believes he was born for such a time as this to save it. 🧵
