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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In effect, he promotes a notion of freedom that fetishizes politics and promotes an authoritarian cult of violence.
As a member of Congress, he was one of the founding members of the far-right Freedom Caucus.
Obsessed with presenting himself as a principled defender of freedom, he uses the term with reference to almost every policy he supports, every attack he launches, and every speech he presents.
He shamelessly ignores his misuse of the term ...
