DeSantis' Culture Wars: A Presidential Run

America’s Lawyer E39: Ron DeSantis could end up being sued by high school students for blocking an AP African American studies class. We’ll explain why the move to block the class could hurt DeSantis’ political ambitions. DirecTV dumped the conservative news channel Newsmax, and now they could face the wrath of Congress. And Democrats in Massachusetts want prison inmates to give up their internal organs in exchange for reduced sentences. All that, and more is coming up, so don’t go anywhere – America’s Lawyer starts right now.

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Hi, I'm Mike Papantonio and this is America's Lawyer. Ron DeSantis could end up being sued by high school students for blocking an AP African-American Studies class. We'll explain why the move to block the class could hurt DeSantis in his political runs. DirecTV, well, they dumped the conservative news channel Newsmax and now they could face the wrath of Congress. And Democrats in Massachusetts want prison inmates to give up their internal organs in exchange for reduced sentences. It's all coming up right here. Don't go anywhere. Right here on America's Lawyer.

Ron DeSantis' culture wars might be winning in Florida, but he may fall flat if he runs for President. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about this. Farron, you know, we both, I think land in the same place here. This is just a remake of the Lee Atwater, Donald Segretti, Ronald Reagan, Bush one culture wars, right?

Yeah.

I mean this is, this is just like, I mean, what, what he's doing is to, to convey the same thing that Ronald Reagan conveyed when he launched his president's run in Philadelphia, Mississippi. They were so backwards and so, so out of it. I mean, just absolute racist center that they didn't even join the Confederacy. They didn't think the Confederacy was, was extreme enough for 'em.

Yeah. And, you know, for, for a big Hollywood guy like Reagan to come in and pick this small Mississippi town to do it, it was very calculated.

Mm-hmm.

And DeSantis I think is, you know, he, he's not a stupid guy by any stretch.

No, he is not. Don't, don't ever believe he is.

He's dangerously smart.

Yeah.

And he's kind of taken that same thing and brought it to modern times. And recently, of course, with the blocking of the AP African-American Studies course, he's kind of put it on steroids to the point where one, he's likely to end up sued. You've got, you know, legendary civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump working on this.

And he'll, he'll win this suit.

Yeah.

I mean, there's already precedent to win this lawsuit.

There is. And so he faces that trouble. The problem is, even if they win that lawsuit, the public's not gonna pay attention to that.

Yeah.

It will be that DeSantis did it, that he got his initial victory. And the people in this state, and I cannot stress this enough, the people in Florida love him.

Well, they absolutely do. As a matter of fact, people are moving to Florida.

Yeah.

I saw a number where it was like, just like a fraction of a percentage of people moving to Florida are, are registering Democrat.

We, we've had I think like almost a million Republicans move to Florida in the last four years, is what I've seen.

Well, they're coming outta the big cities. They're confronted with dysfunction in the big cities, as in, in their mind. And, and obviously it is, there's some reason they're coming here. They like the idea of, of DeSantis' culture war. Whether it's, you know, you may, people may look at is and say, that idiot, you know, what a stupid thing to do. What does he know? He knows it worked for Ronald Reagan.

Yeah.

He knows it worked for George Bush one. You remember the welfare queen thing?

Yep.

That was part of, that was part an extension of Lee Atwater's and Donald Segretti's idea to turn the country up on its head in culture wars. And that division is happening right now in this country stronger than probably it's ever been. But I mean, there, the, the obvious is there's absolutely zero.