Hugo Gurdon is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Hill and previously served as an editor and reporter at the Daily Telegraph of London and the National Post of Canada. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal (Europe), Financial Times, and the Guardian.
Florida Man has acquired a reputation for comedic recklessness for which there is only a tortuous explanation but no reasonable excuse. These produce headlines such as “Florida man threw live alligator in Wendy’s drive-thru window” and “Florida man tries to evade arrest by cartwheeling away from cops."
Both create chaos partly, it seems, because they derive a simple and irresponsible pleasure from smashing norms, and partly because they see electoral advantage in doing so. Like his mentor, Gaetz appears to believe all publicity is good publicity, and he hopes it might help him win the governorship of his home state when it becomes vacant in 2026 or sooner.
The mutiny threw overboard a speaker who had run the House in a more transparent and democratic way than any of his recent predecessors, and who had kept rather than broken his undertakings to the malcontents when they resisted giving him the gavel. It was, moreover, done without any apparent plan for how things will now proceed or further the conservative and fiscally responsible goals the rebels say are theirs.
The amused disdain contained in the phrase “Florida Man” curdles into bitterness with Gaetz, but the state doesn’t deserve such blinkered mockery. It is one of the most successful and best governed in the union, and it is on the strength of his record of achievement that Gov. Ron DeSantis is running for his party’s presidential nomination. That, ironically, allows Gaetz to wonder whether the governor’s mansion will become free as early as 2025.
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