Don’t believe anything you read about the Sunshine State until you fact-check it yourself.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s unofficial motto, outlined in his New York Times bestselling book, is to make America Florida. The GOP primary—and, if DeSantis wins it, the general election—will be a referendum on Florida. So the media are selling a dishonest narrative that Florida is a repressive and awful state—one where books get banned, the word “gay” can’t be spoken, black history is forbidden in schools, and migrants, LGBTs, and other oppressed groups live in fear for their lives.
