It was about a year ago when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what critics labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law. To hear the Republican governor tell it, the measure was a modest education reform.as the proposal worked its way through the GOP-led state legislature, the proposal “uses intentionally vague language to outlaw a huge amount of speech about LGBTQ people, families, and issues — not just sex — in every grade.
Late last week, on the heels of Nikki Haley launching her presidential campaign, the South Carolina Republican made clear that she wasn’t impressed with the Floridian’s policy — not because it was an example of the government trying to stifle speech in educational settings in order to punish the LGBTQ community, but because Haley saw it as tooFormer South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday criticized the so-called Don’t Say Gay measure signed into law by Florida Gov.
There’s no great mystery as to the political motivations behind such rhetoric: DeSantis is widely seen as a likely presidential candidate, and Haley is taking early steps to position herself as a stronger candidate. The South Carolinian is basically telling GOP primary voters not to be too impressed by the Floridian’s notorious anti-LGBTQ measure — because she’d go in an even more reactionary direction.
What we’re witnessing, in other words, is one of the earliest signs of an inescapable race to the bottom: the process through which ambitious Republicans scramble to appear even more radical than their radical rivals, hoping to impress the GOP base by staking out new positions based on the idea that far-right ideas simply aren’t far enough to the right.
Haley offered a classic example of the phenomenon, but she has some company. Donald Trump, for example, has recently begun
MaddowBlog Ugly is as ugly does
MaddowBlog Where are the Log Cabin Republicans?
MaddowBlog how the fxck can a news organisation be this biased?
MaddowBlog The war on woke is a war on the weak.
MaddowBlog So another words are liberal Democrat or for teaching kindergarten the six grade about pornographic material when I was growing up that was child abuse I don’t know what they called out when your generation was growing up
MaddowBlog There is no “don’t say gay” law, you guys just lie repeatedly and people see it
MaddowBlog lol anyone who calls out the “don’t say gay” law just has no idea what they’re talking about
Mud wrestling planned yet?
Eliminating Medicare, Social Security, Abortion Rights, Equal Protection for LGBTQ, gun laws, funding for Ukraine, but will flood $$ into AR-15 manuf. & support the BIG LIE is what the GOP Republicans are about, which is why I will be voting against them in 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸
You’re just a tabloid at best…..hire a real journalist.
You channel is 😡💩💩💩💩 not real journalism bunch of misogynist racists.
Only liberals call it don't say gay. Liberals want to teach my 5 year old about sex and feed them immoral crap. Can't stop , drp, and roll where you are going. I pray you see the light before it's too late
It's the Parental Rights law. Apparently MSNBC doesn't care about parental rights. Wonder if their kids know that they don't care. My opinion
Nikki Haley doesn't know it wasn't a 'don't say gay' law but a way to stop grooming kids? She should stop watchin' Disney after hours!
Nikki’s nipping up the wrong tree
She’s a RINO tho everyone knows it
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GO NIKKI!
She can't answer any policies that she stands for. She won't win.
There is no such thing as a “Don’t Say Gay” bill or law. Quit spreading lies.
There's nothing in that law about not saying gay.
There was no gay in bill Fake news can’t help themselves?
Not for me I will vote for Trump, problem solved
AS I RECALL, NIKKI SERVED AT THE UN FOR A WHILE. SO IF YOU WANT MORE UN CONTROL IN YOUR LIFE, VOTE FOR NIKKI. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE UN HATES AMERICA!
i’m looking more forward to when Joe Biden tells Kamala sorry I picked somebody else
GOP women aren’t qualified to be president.
lol, ugly is the racist, divisive and supporter of all the things marxists like BLM, MSNBC.... Your anti white agenda is blatantly racist and you should be pulled from the cable providers and fined, including your race baiting activists.
Wait till democrats start eating their own in going to get real ugly when Newson and others try to oust the embarrassment currently installed in our White House.Maybe hillary will raise her evil head one more time ?
There is no such thing as a “Don’t Say Gay” law, not in Florida anyway.
If republicans some how get in in 2024, America willnever be the same again and utterly destroyed from within. It will give the likes of Putin exactly what they want!
Should one intervene when one's opponents are in the process of destroying one another?
😂 she doesn't have a chance.
‘Don’t say gay’?!? How is that even possible, considering my kid belongs to the school’s lgb club 🤷♀️.
Yes will be fun to watch MAGAs destroy themselves once and for all!
FOOD FIGHT!
She should go after the meatball for his ties to the cannabis industry and arresting medical marijuana patients who dare to grow their own medicine.
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