Ron DeSantis & the Politics of Ugly Freedoms
Henry Giroux, 2023-07-19
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* This is a sober/thorough assessment of Ron DeSantis (and the Republican Party/far-right generally) and their concept of "freedom."
Americans live in an age when the summons to freedom is being falsely appropriated by the far-right to dominate, suppress, & exclude those considered unworthy, disposable, & excess.
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It is also being weaponized as a political tool to eliminate those institutions which provide support for those individuals considered enemies, or dehumanized because of their color, identity, politics, & ethnicity.
The poisoning of freedom is particularly obvious in the ideologically-driven politics & policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has used freedom ... [to] destroy those values & institutions that are foundational to a substantive democracy.
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