Nearly forty years ago Ronald Reagan made a kind of stupid joke about “outlawing Russia”. Now his political descendants in Florida are trying to do exactly that to the Democratic Party… and they’re not joking, as far as it appears. The shithead introducing the bill calls it “The Ultimate Cancel Act”, which frankly illustrates the mentality at work; the idea is that any party that ever advocated for slavery at any point in history would be deregistered, which would mean all registered Democrat voters would be re-registered as independents and the politicians would, at best, have to re-organise as a new group. Oof.
The Florida Democratic Party’s response was to call this asinine bullshit a stunt, which it obviously is; this is just some dickhead trying to out-loon Ron DeSantis, because, you know, the whole “Florida Man” thing. Problem is, Florida is such an increasingly fascist basket case that I wouldn’t rule out a law like this actually succeeding there; frankly I’m surprised DeSantis didn’t think of it himself. Or maybe he has at some point but he’s held off revealing the plan, and this Ingoglia character has lifted the lid on it earlier than he should’ve done? At the moment I’m not sure we should put anything past the Republicans, especially those down southeast…
