He’s just a more boring version of exactly the same thing
Everyone says, “oh, at least he won’t try to overthrow the government.” Do we know that? Take a look at this:
During an interview on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, DeSantis was asked if he would consider pardons for Trump and other Jan. 6 defendants
“What I’m going to do is I’m going to do on day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons,” DeSantis promised.
“Now some of these cases, some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three other people who did the same thing, but just in a context like BLM and they don’t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice.”
“We’re going to find examples where we have governments [have] been weaponized against disfavored groups, and we will apply relief as appropriate,” he added.
Sexton pressed the candidate about a pardon for Trump.
“And that could be from a grandma who got arrested and prosecuted too much all the way up to potentially Trump himself?” he wondered.
“I would say any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big,” DeSantis confirmed.
That’s just a fancy way of saying yes, he will pardon Republicans and instruct his DOJ to go after Democrats. His plan is to search for examples of a rioter somewhere who broke into a grocery store or set something on fire and if they got a lower sentence than a January 6th insurrectionist, he will pardon the insurrectionist. And once he purges the DOJ of anyone, including career employees who don’t sign on to his agenda, as he has promised, it won’t be hard to do.
This is DeSantis setting forth an agenda that appears to be just as draconian as Trump’s. And considering what he’s done in Florida I would believe that he will do it. Say what you will about DeSantis, he tends to fulfill his agenda one way or another.
“Would you build the wall and would you use the military to go after Mexican drug cartels?” Florida’s governor was asked at a press conference this month, replying, “Yes, and yes.” He elaborated:
The border should be shut down. I mean, this is ridiculous what’s going on. You shut it down. You do need to construct a wall. …
We also have to come to terms with all the amount of fentanyl that’s coming into our country because of this border. And who’s doing it, it’s these Mexican drug cartels. They need to be held accountable. We can’t just let our people die. …
That’s a Day One issue. I mean, you’ve got to be really, really determined. You can’t let it slide, you can’t make excuses, you gotta go in and you gotta really go in with all guns blazing and using all the leverage that you have to be able to do it.
All the Republicans are saying they will send the US Military into Mexico if they are elected. Supposedly, they will only be “going after the cartels” but you can imagine that Mexico (and the rest of the world) will see this for what it would be: an invasion of a sovereign country. I mean, “you’ve gotta really go in with all guns blazing” may be a figure of speech but in this context it is really chilling.