What a contrast. In Washington, it’s all .
But in Tallahassee, Florida, it was blue skies as far as the eye can see.<br>In a sweeping and poetic, Florida Governor Ron mesmerized an adoring crowd with two themes sorely lacking from American political life: truth and common sense.<br>These were the tools of a governor who refused to bend to Covid panic, who more than any other elected leader, pushed back against absurd and needless lockdowns, who opposed the latest cultural perversities and advanced conservative governance.<br>’Over the past few years, as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up,’ he declared, kicking off his second term.<br>Indeed.<br>’When other states consigned their people’s freedom to the dustbin. Florida stood strongly as freedom’s linchpin.'<br>I couldn’t say it better myself.<br>’When the world lost its mind – when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue – Florida was a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for our fellow Americans and even for people around the world.'<br>There is no arguing with that.<br>Today, as the wages of pandemic lockdowns crush the residents of states such as New York, California, and Michigan, it is easy to forget just how reviled, slot gacor hari ini how castigated, how hated DeSantis was when he re-opened Florida in April 2020.<br> In a sweeping and poetic 20-minute inauguration speech on Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis mesmerized an adoring crowd with two themes sorely lacking from American political life: truth and common sense.<br> ‘Over the past few years, as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up,’ he declared, kicking off his second term.<br>It all seems so obvious now.

But it didn’t then, or as he put it, ‘We face attacks, we take hits, but we weather the storms, we stand our ground, and we do what is right.'<br>This was a victory lap. And a hopefully, more than that.<br>Dare I say, a new beginning?<br>It was impossible to miss the fact that as DeSantis spoke a broken national GOP was flailing in Washington, unable to elect a new speaker of the House, a sizable amount of its members more concerned with bickering and posturing than the people’s business.<br>Washington is leaderless for conservatives.

And while the DC set plays petty politics DeSantis is getting things done.<br> RELATED ARTICLES

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‘Florida is proof positive that We the People are not destined for failure. Decline is a choice. Success is attainable. And freedom is worth fighting for,’ he said.<br>It wasn’t just the prescience of his pandemic policies on display in his address, as it turns out that was merely the appetizer of his fine first term.

The entree, the meat and potatoes of the American body politic and its discontents, is the fight against the cultural excesses of the left and a defensive of conservatism.<br>The speech celebrated the ‘Free State of Florida,’ but its message was just as easily applied to the nation.<br>’Fighting for freedom is not easy because the threats to freedom are more complex and more widespread than in the past – the threats can come from entrenched bureaucrats in D.C., jet-setters in Davos, and corporations wielding public power.

But fight we must,’ he insisted.<br>And now, DeSantis has the record to prove that he’s able to offer more than just talk.<br>According to the CATO institute, Florida leads the national in economic freedom and education freedom.
It is no wonder, as the governor pointed out, that refugees from deep blue states are flocking to Florida like a gaggle of geese, their flying-V pointed south.<br>Florida is the fastest growing state in the nation. And that’s not only due to solid economic stewardship and an emphasis on personal liberty.

DeSantis has also shown a brave willingness to aggressively fight the culture war.<br> What a contrast.

In Washington, DC it’s all chaos and confusion. But in Tallahassee, Florida, it was blue skies as far as the eye can see.<br> DeSantis has also shown a brave willingness to aggressively fight the culture war.<br>’We reject this woke ideology.

We seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy! We will not allow reality, facts, and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.'<br>It’s a line we’ve heard before and we will do well to hear again.<br>There is a lot of talk about populism and the new right, a lot of factions fighting to define and own the movement, but with his speech, DeSantis, maybe for the first time, articulated the basic principles of today’s GOP and conservative movement.<br>For over a decade a fearful conservative movement bowed to the shibboleths and orthodoxies of a progressive left gone off the rails.

The cultural arsonists have become entrenched in academic, medicine, law and early education.<br>But DeSantis will not pretend that biological men can become women, he will not pretend that the United States is a racist enterprise, and he will not allow these fabrications to be taught to our kids.<br>These are the battles that American conservatives want to fight and in DeSantis they have a champion.<br>’We must ensure school systems are responsive to parents and to students, not partisan interest groups, and we must ensure that our institutions of higher learning are focused on academic excellence and the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of trendy ideology.'<br>Again, a clarion call for sanity.<br>DeSantis is saying the things you aren’t supposed to say.

As we know, truth these days can be considered hate speech.<br> DeSantis will not pretend that biological men can become women, he will not pretend that the United States is a racist enterprise, and he will not allow these fabrications to be taught to our kids.<br>And make no mistake, if DeSantis thinks, rightly, that unfair attacks have been waged against him he ain’t seen nothing yet.<br>This speech, this manifesto for freedom and the American Dream will fire up his detractors just as much as his admirers.<br>Soon will come the parade of pundits postulating that he is worse than Donald Trump, that he is a fascist hell bent on destroying the marginalized or some such nonsense.<br>Don’t be fooled, see through it.

He is hated for loving all that is great about our nation.<br>Speeches rarely matter in our cynical time more prone to Twitter dunks and viral videos, but on Tuesday this much was made clear.<br>There is a leader for the right.<br>And in a tip of the hat to one of the greatest Republican leaders in America history, DeSantis closed his speech aptly.<br>’We insist on the restoration of time-tested constitutional principles so that government of, by and for the people shall not perish from this earth.'<br>

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