DiSanity

November 9, 2022

As someone much smarter than me said, “It’s never over til it’s over.” The votes are still being counted, but it looks like an election characterized by Democracy, Deniers, Dobbs, and the Donald. Democracy and abortion rights prevailed. Deniers and Trump were rejected. Hopefully, we have moved back to some sense of sanity.

Despite his overwhelming victory, Ron DiSantis probably said the dumbest thing of the night as he teed up his 2024 presidential run. “Florida is where the woke mob goes to die.” I know a lot of people who have moved to Florida, and no one ever said they moved to Florida because Massachusetts was too woke. It is true that people move to Florida to die. They move to Florida for the weather, which is miserable six months of the year. They move to Florida because of estate taxes. They move to Florida to play golf and go fishing. They move to Florida despite DiSantis’ war on woke, and not because of it. His rants may work in Florida, but, what the mid-terms point out, it won’t work nationally.