DeSantis wants to make all of America like Florida

Whichever evil shitheel wins the GOP primary, DeSantis or Trump, it's  not good.

"What we're really going for is people putting it on social media and spreading it around and pushing the conversation in the public arena," [National Socialist Florida leader Josh] Nunes says.

  NPR

And I guess I've just helped them out.

Nunes and his group regularly coordinate with other far-right groups, forming what the advocacy organization Anti-Defamation League calls an unprecedented level of coordination among white nationalist groups in Florida.

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"We've just seen the largest upticks in recruitment from the drag stuff," Nunes says.

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"These groups are looking to sanitize this imagery like this," says Ben Popp, a researcher with the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. Over the past two years, the ADL has tracked over 400 instances of white nationalist literature being disseminated in Florida. Popp says the normalizing of racist imagery is one way that white nationalists look to gain a foothold.

"They want the community to view this as a normal occurrence, so they're attempting to make it a normal occurrence by going out every weekend and using these laser projectors to do this," Popp says.

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This year, [Florida governor Ron DeSantis] tapped into outrage fueled by disinformation over Critical Race Theory by threatening to end high school advanced placement courses in African American Studies. Last year, DeSantis signed the so-called "don't say gay" law that barred classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. [...]

"Obviously, we're critical of racial issues" he says, couching racist rhetoric in civility. "But there's a nice way to go about it, that's not gonna get your teeth punched out of your head."

A nice way to push Nazi racism and hate. Who knew?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.