Ron DeSantis is Looking GOOFY Thanks to Wokeness

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' "war on wokeness" is failing and falling flat in a recent poll. The word "woke" was an awareness term for the black community, but the word was taken away by white neoliberals. DeSantis "war on woke" is costing him a lot, and it ranks low to other issues such as racism, abortion restrictions and book banning in schools. Senator Nina Turner and Mayor Mondale Robinson break it down on Unbossed.

Read more here

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Americans care far less about the so-called war on woke than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has aimed to make his ongoing battle with the Walt Disney Co. over LGBTQ issues a centerpiece of his likely campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

The survey of 1,584 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 5 to 8, finds that fewer consider “wokeness” (41%) a “big problem” in America today than any other option provided, including inflation (74%), breaching the debt ceiling (58%) and border security (58%).

Racism (50%) also outranks wokeness, as do new abortion restrictions (46%) and book banning in schools (47%) — issues on which President Biden plans to focus his reelection bid.

For months now, DeSantis has been dueling with Disney, his state’s largest employer, over the company’s decision last year to criticize a Florida law that bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms. In response, DeSantis tried to abolish the special tax district that has enabled Disney World to essentially function as its own county government since 1967, then took control of the board overseeing the district.

“We will never surrender to the woke mob,” DeSantis said in a January speech kicking off his second term as governor. “Florida is where woke goes to die.”

Now Disney is suing DeSantis, saying it was subjected to “a targeted campaign of government retaliation.”

Follow Senator Turner on:

Campaign site

230512__UB04PollDeSantisWarOnWokeUnpopular