What do the following things have in common?
European History, Art History, Japanese Language & Culture, German Language & Culture, Italian Language & Culture, and Spanish Language & Culture.
If you guessed that all six subjects are offered as advanced placement (AP) courses in Florida high schools, give yourself a gold star.
What’s missing from that list?
If you guessed African-American History, give yourself another gold star.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to be president in the worst way, so he is being governor of his state in the worst way, telling Florida high schools they may not offer an AP course in African-American History.
His reason?
He doesn’t want white students to feel upset or guilty about their race.
Who would have thought DeSantis would have turned out to be such a snowflake?
It isn’t as if the governor hasn’t cut loose like this before. He banned the use of the word “gay” by state employees to describe people of the homosexual preference, and he has gone after Disney for their “woke” policies. Indeed, he proudly described Florida as the state “where woke goes to die.”
Apparently he forgot that Florida is the state where everything goes to die.
It’s God’s waiting room.
It’s actually difficult to imagine DeSantis being elected president. I’m not even convinced he can get the Republican nomination.
First off, the man has almost no charisma. In that respect, he’s Ted Cruz redux.
Second, and related to the first, he’s not particularly likable. It’s difficult to imagine him winning the Beer Primary, as in who’s thew candidate you would most like to have a beer with.
Third, Donald Trump won’t allow it.
If you think that’s silly, just imagine the former president constantly on the attack, and think about the people who vote in Republican primaries. The same people who elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan, Lauren Boebert and all the other inhabitants of the clown car.
That doesn’t mean Trump is a lock for the nomination. It’s entirely possible someone charismatic and likable could run and beat him, although I can’t think of any Republicans who fit that description.
But just as Dean Wormer taught us back at Faber College that fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, going head to head with Big Bad Don for the fat, drunk and stupid vote is anything but a recipe for success.
Till then, I suppose Florida will get what it asked for in its governor.