The Media’s War on Florida Heats Up

Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s unofficial motto, outlined in his New York Times bestselling book, is to make America Florida. The GOP primary—and, if DeSantis wins it, the general election—will be a referendum on Florida.

So the media are selling a dishonest narrative that Florida is a repressive and awful state—one where books get banned, the word “gay” can’t be spoken, black history is forbidden in schools, and migrants, LGBTs, and other oppressed groups live in fear for their lives.

The latest bit of Florida clickbait involves the sacking of a charter school principal, Hope Carrasquilla of Tallahassee Classical School, following parental complaints that sixth-graders were being shown Michelangelo’s nude statue of David.