A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ongoing war of words with Chicago and its Democratic leadership continues, as he weighs in on a now-reversed decision to remove a statue of George Washington.
“Leftism run amok. George Washington is our greatest American,” DeSantis posted to X.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson floated removing the tribute to the first President before rescinding his decision, a fact lost on the Not the Bee website that urged readers to recall “when it was a cOnSpIrAcY ThEoRy to say that the liberals would eventually come after statues of the Founding Fathers? We were saying it back in the early Trump years when the libs were tearing down Confederate statues.”
Whether DeSantis is aware that the Mayor changed his mind is unknown, but the balance of his post suggests not.
“The revolution would not (have) been won, the republic would not have been founded, and the Constitution would not have been created without Washington. It was his character — defined by service above self and a willingness to refuse power — that held it all together. We should be building more statues of Washington, not tearing them down,” the Governor wrote.
Chicago critiques and monument defenses have been a big part of DeSantis’ rhetorical arsenal in recent years.
“You have a city going down the tubes and they elect somebody (Johnson) that’s going to put it down the tubes even faster. I can tell you this, Naples property values are going to be going up in the state of Florida,” the Florida Governor told the New Hampshire Republican Party in 2023, when he was beginning his campaign for President.
He made similar points in speaking to businessmen in Japan.
“Chicago used to be one of the greatest cities in America. It’s had huge problems and there’s really a major need to go a different direction, and they elect someone that’s going to keep going in the same bad direction at an accelerated pace,” DeSantis lamented.
He has also suggested that monument removal is a slippery slope.
The Governor said in February that calls for the removal of “some Civil War general or whatever” have evolved into other forms of historical erasure, such as “taking down Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt and (Abraham) Lincoln, taking Washington’s name off schools.”
14 comments
M. Mouse
July 17, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Such a sad little man, trying to be relevant. Squeak!
My Take
July 17, 2024 at 4:14 pm
My thoughts exactly.
Does he have a team scanning the news for topics for him to blither on … daily.
Jojo
July 27, 2024 at 12:30 pm
And what about our dim wit commissioner of education? Has someone informed him that
A) Jane Austin is British and
B) Pride and Prejudice takes place in England?
Not Woke
July 17, 2024 at 2:26 pm
Chicago getting the leadership they deserve. Not much better than Beetlejuice.
MH/Duuuval
July 17, 2024 at 9:08 pm
“George Washington is our greatest American,” DeSantis posted to X.
George was a slaveowner and land speculator. He helped both the revolution and the young nation in crucial ways: a seriously flawed leader.
Lincoln enslaved no human beings, opposed enslavement, and led the Union to victory in the Civll War, which led to the abolition of enslavement and laid the basis for re-creating the Constitution to reflect “all men are created equal.”
Michael K
July 17, 2024 at 9:37 pm
Ron hates big cities and university towns. Why? Both are full of smart, educated people; centers of creativity and innovation, and are the economic engines that drive our economy.
Cities are places of tolerance, where diversity, equity, and inclusion are facts of life, where progressive ideas move us forward, not backward. The arc of freedom has always been progressive, not regressive.
TD
July 17, 2024 at 10:58 pm
Dude, how much more cope?
Chicago is run by literal Marxists who now openly state they would repeal the founding and the Constitution, hence the removal of the statues. Dozens of shooting DEATHS (which you care nothing about, Mr. Progressive) in a single weekend. A complete disaster, visible to anyone with eyes to see.
And yet you spout this “wE aRe tHe oNeS oN tHe rIgHT siDE oF hiStoRy” garbage. No one believes it.
MH/Duuuval
July 18, 2024 at 5:53 pm
Illinois has strict gun control laws. The 2A knuckleheads protect the traffickers who export their firearms into Illinois.
TJC
July 26, 2024 at 12:24 pm
This, from the American Enterprise Institute: “Chicago is America’s third-largest metro economy and in 2018 its GDP of $689 billion was almost the same size as Switzerland’s GDP of $705 billion…”
Not bad capitalism for a bunch of “Marxists.”
Jojo
July 27, 2024 at 12:26 pm
I think you’re a little behind on the news. Try looking at a more balanced news site
The Got Hamas Earl!
July 18, 2024 at 10:06 am
A potential registered sex offender in Florida was arrested and charged with three criminal counts related to threatening President Joe Biden and other federal officials, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday, just days after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The Secret Service, which has come under intense scrutiny since Trump’s shooting by a gunman whose motives remain a mystery, has been monitoring 39-year-old Jason Patrick Alday of Quincy, Fla., since late June and, with U.S. Marshalls, detained him on Monday, according to court documents.
Michael K
July 18, 2024 at 7:08 pm
And of course, the people who hate cities do not live in cities.
The top 25 US metros comprise more than half the US economy.
And by the way, crime in the US is at an all-time low. And oil production is at an all-time high. Look it up – don’t believe the GQP lies.
Jojo
July 27, 2024 at 12:24 pm
Illegal crossings are down
Inflation is down
Unemployment is at an all time low
Jojo
July 27, 2024 at 12:22 pm
We have an ideological dim wit for a governor.
And while we’re on the subject of statuary, exactly who was it that defaced statues of our founding fathers in the capital on January 6?
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