Ron DeSantis tried to make a Florida college conservative. Now the students are fleeing.
Ron DeSantis tried to make a Florida college conservative. Now the students are fleeing.
The school lost a large percentage of its faculty this year after DeSantis's "hostile takeover" of the school...
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Everything he does backfires terribly. He's running Florida further into the ground. Frankly, except for the innocents harmed (students and minorities and the like), let it burn. The people of Florida elected a monster. They get what they deserve.
Democrats who controlled the state legislature were worried that holding their gubernatorial elections in presidential years, when more Republican voters showed up at the polls, threatened their solid grip on state politics.
So a group of rural segregationist Democrats called a special statewide election to change the year in which Florida elected its governors. Voters approved the change, shifting gubernatorial elections to midterm years, rather than presidential years.
Several decades later, this backfired on the Democrats.
Looks less like backfiring on Democrats and more like benefiting rural folk both times
more like benefiting rural folk both times
And they're more likely to vote during the midterms anyway.
Also, it didn't really backfire on the segregationist Democrats (aka Dixiecrats) who did it; they eventually migrated to the Republican Party.