Here’s the Line That Brought Down the House During Ron Desantis’ Inaugural Speech. By Paula Bolyard.
On Tuesday, Ron DeSantis was sworn in for a second term as Florida’s governor. …
The build up:
Calling Florida a “promised land of sanity” in a sea of cities being destroyed by woke ideology, DeSantis noted that “Many of these cities and states have embraced faddish ideology at the expense of enduring principles. They have harmed public safety by coddling criminals and attacking law enforcement. They have imposed unreasonable burdens on taxpayers to finance unfathomable levels of public spending. They have harmed education by subordinating the interests of students and parents to partisan interest groups.”
“They have imposed medical authoritarianism in the guise of pandemic mandates and restrictions that lack a scientific basis. [applause] This bizarre, but prevalent, ideology that permeates these policy measures purports to act in the name of justice for the marginalized, but it frowns upon American institutions, it rejects merit and achievement, and it advocates identity essentialism,” said DeSantis.
The line:
The crowd went wild when he declared: “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!”
The applause began before DeSantis could get halfway through that passage and culminated in a standing ovation from the enthusiastic crowd. …
DeSantis has his pulse on the base of the Republican Party. Rather than sitting back and letting the left destroy his state, he’s been the most aggressive, successful governor in the country, battling back the forces of evil that seek to entrap our children into a life of pain, misery, and dysfunction.
Whole shebang, very presidential:
See from 51:00, with standing ovation following. Also from 48:00, with a previous standing ovation. Got stuck into the bureaucracy from 53:00, but the crowd didn’t get it.
