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LA TimesRon DeSantis, who is expected to run for president, has turbocharged his attack on LGBTQ+ people, racial minorities, teachers and gun safety. Nearly from the outset, DeSantis accepted the unfounded claims by a cadre of unqualified theorists that the proper approach was to focus protection on the most vulnerable population — the elderly — and allow the virus to roam free among everyone else in a quest for “herd immunity.” It didn’t work. DeSantis installed a known COVID “crank,” Joseph Ladapo, as his state’s surgeon general. In a speech Monday, he sneered, “If you want to do things like gender ideology, go to Berkeley.. We don’t want to be diverted into a lot of these niche subjects that are heavily politicized.” DeSantis has consistently eviscerated LBGTQ+ rights. One of the few DeSantis initiatives that has garnered national attention, his stupid fight with the Walt Disney Co. over the latter’s criticism of his “Don’t Say Gay” law, has unnerved even Republican fat cats.
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