Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during a Newsweek podcast said woke Democrats are easy prey for Republicans.
"What we said is that parents have a right to know what is being taught in schools ... and what books are in the libraries," he said."Now, they have a right to raise that with the school district and those books can be removed from these younger grades, in particular."
He added:"You don't have a First Amendment right to highjack a taxpayer funded government institution and impose your private agenda on the rest of the people." "If you, as a private citizen," he said,"want to go out and do critical race theory, that is 100 percent First Amendment speech; government can't abridge that, knock yourself out. It's not my cup of tea and I don't think most people find it persuasive, but of course you can go do that."
He also noted that the Republican party traditionally believes that"government clearly is a threat to your freedoms," but added that corporations are exercising"quasi public powers," in part when social media firms clamp down on speech deemed politically incorrect.
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