From the Mountain West to the Deep South and beyond, DeSantis-inspired bills are springing up in state legislatures, signaling a shift within the Republican Party.
bill would hold librarians and teachers criminally liable should a student be exposed to obscene reading materials, also taking a cue from DeSantis’s agenda some 2,000 miles away.
attempt to stifle creativity and academic freedom in education. About 20 of those proposals appear to be nearly a “carbon copy” of afrom elementary school classrooms, said Jeremy Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America. “A lot of people can tell you what they would like to do, and what they think should be done, but Ron DeSantis actually has a record and can show, ‘This is what I have done,’” Green said.
Political analysts who closely follow state legislation caution that DeSantis isn’t the only inspiration for bills in states such as North Carolina, Indiana and Missouri that LGBTQ advocates refer to as “don’t say gay” laws. They note that many Republican-leaning states are led by governors, such as Kim Reynolds in Iowa or Kristi L. Noem in South Dakota, who have long signaled their willingness to take on divisive cultural battles.
For one thing, Mackowiak noted that DeSantis has benefited from having a relatively weak legislature — including term limits for lawmakers — that make it easier for the governor to enact and take credit for headline-grabbing legislation. But as GOP legislators from an array of states seek to emulate DeSantis’s policies, there remains considerable uncertainty over whether his message and style of policymaking plays well politically outside of Florida and the Deep South.
“We are watching one person take hold of as much power as he possibly can by targeting Black communities, targeting LGBTQ communities, and the rest of the country takes note of that,” Chestnut said.
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