Florida Gov Ron DeSantis rolled out an anti-grooming policy that blocks the over-sexualized indoctrination of children in the public school system and instantly he became a human target for the left. What liberals are calling the ‘don’t say gay’ bill has nothing to do with whether the ‘term gay’ can be used at all. It’s about not pushing children to question their sexuality while they’re too impressionable to make decisions for themselves.
MSNBC troll, Nicolle Wallace took that narrative a step further and compared DeSantis to the Russian soldiers raping children in Ukraine. A hell of a jump from reality, but she IS a Wallace, after all.
“I worry in covering Glenn Youngkin and his politics of ‘parental choice,’ all the focus was on how well it worked. And even in our conversations about DeSantis, it’s about how well they’re serving him,” Wallace said. “The truth is dehumanization as a tactic for politics is from war. Dehumanization is a tactic, speaking right now where Russians get the soldiers to rape children by dehumanizing them. Dehumanization as a practice is a tactic of war. It is being deployed in our politics and people like you and I sometimes lose the plot and admire its effectiveness, not its substance.”
She later added “But even its analysis loses sight of what this speech brings us back to which is dehumanization has a cost right now as it’s being deployed. Chasten Buttigieg made this point when Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was being introduced. Kids will die. How do we bring it back to the substance of the harm that’s done by any strategy in war and politics of dehumanizing people?”
“Yeah, I think that’s right,” Miller replied. “Their cruelty and inhuman behavior is inexcusable.”
Later on in the show, Wallace spoke with MSNBC political contributor Matthew Dowd who similarly described the bills as tactics of war.
“This is a tactic of war. We are in a culture war. This is a culture war launched by Republicans against the country and the Democrats,” Dowd said.
That’s an insanely bold and wildly inaccurate comparison, even for MSNBC. I am no expert but I would look into defamation laws if I were DeSantis. Obviously, the case would go nowhere, but it would at least hold the press accountable to some degree. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.