DeSantis Confronts Cultural Marxism of Woke Ideology

DESANTIS: I think what you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions. And I view the wokeness as a form of culture Marxism. They want to tear…

CROWD: (applause)

DESANTIS: They want to just… It’s not just, you know, people say, “Oh, you know, they’re leftists or socialists.” It’s not just like taxes and all that. Yeah, they do want that, and that’s not good. But they really want to tear at the fabric of our society and our culture and things that really we’ve taken for granted like the ability of parents to direct the upbringing of their kids.

BUCK: Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida there absolutely correct, and he keeps taking actions to defend people as parents, people’s rights to have their children instructed in a way that is in keeping with a, well, sane view of mesh and the world around them. Clay, I gotta tell you, Governor DeSantis, it’s like he was created in a lab of conservatism to save the state of Florida.

CLAY: I think this is, honestly… We talk a lot about what the legacy of Trump is going to be. I think the legacy of Trump is going to be, “He has emboldened a lot of younger politicians to say,” gotta be careful here, “‘F— it,’ and just say exactly what they think as opposed to worrying about what the media might say in response and that there is a massive number of people out there that will have your back. Because how many times did they say, “Oh, Trump said this! He’s done as a political figure.” They couldn’t cancel him, and I think he’s emboldened a generation of Republicans to be fearless in advocating for what they believe, and DeSantis is one of the first to take that mantle up.