BUCK: The left uses its power. The right sits around and says, “I don’t know. We don’t want government to do things, so who needs to protect individual rights? Let’s just let the left keep doing what it wants.” That happens in a lot of places. It’s not happening as much in some stalwarts of defending individual freedom despite the craziness of the lockdowns. Places like Florida and Texas are making good moves here, doing smart things about covid.

And yet they’re up against the Democrats in those states. They’re almost entirely… It’s a handful of very red states with pretty small populations, but you’ve got Texas and Florida, where they’ve gotta work with the “what is possible,” not just in the legislator but also with activist judges. Clay just sent it to me, and we are diving into it together in the break ’cause we’re always analyzing in real time.

This is in the Wall Street Journal: “Florida schools, covid mask mandates upheld by a judge.” Here’s a judge in Florida who says that school districts “can impose mask mandates and Governor Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority when he banned mask mandates. The judge sided with parents of school children who challenged a July executive order by DeSantis and a subsequent state rule that forbids school districts from implementing mask requirements that don’t allow parents to opt out.” Clay, apparently you can mandate masks, but you cannot mandate freedom from masks as a function of government authority in the state of Florida. This is activist judge bull crap.

CLAY: Yeah. And it’s gonna be appealed, I’m sure. But this ruling just came down in the last half hour out of a Tallahassee court. And the way what I would think about this is — let’s start here, and we’re gonna talk with Alex Berenson in the third hour, but — there remains not a single scintilla of shred of the evidence that masks on children makes them safer. For everybody out there who wants to listen to the experts or follow science, the science so far has been clear.

Many European countries are not requiring masks. The only large study in Georgia of 90,000 pupils found that there was no difference in terms of safety for masked or non-masked children. I think all of that is incredibly significant here. Also significant, Buck, what the governor of Florida is doing is not mandating that no masks can be worn. He’s merely saying parents should have the choice to decide whether or not their kids wear masks. This is, I think, a flagrantly wrong decision by this Florida judge. What you got for us?

BUCK: Clay and I are like special operations anti-mask brigades.

CLAY: Amen!

BUCK: (laughing) We’re right on the front lines.

CLAY: Yes, and there are not a lot of supporters for us right now in the media.

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: That’s the truth.