{"id":1925602,"date":"2023-05-06T07:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-takes-on-desantis-over-fight-against-disney-and-wokeness\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T11:16:14","slug":"ramaswamy-takes-on-desantis-over-fight-against-disney-and-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-takes-on-desantis-over-fight-against-disney-and-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy challenges DeSantis on Disney and wokeness."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Framaswamy-takes-on-desantis-over-fight-against-disney-and-wokeness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Faces Trouble Ahead and Behind<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTrouble ahead, trouble behind\u201d the Grateful Dead used to sing, and right now those lyrics are ringing true for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrouble ahead\u201d is obviously Donald J. Trump, who, at this point, is leaving the governor in the electoral dust in the Republican presidential derby.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrouble behind\u201d is outsider candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who is beginning to catch up to DeSantis. In any case, he\u2019s closer in the latest polls to the Florida governor than DeSantis is to Trump with the biotech entrepreneur\u2019s bullet trending upwards.<\/p>\n<h3>Is DeSantis a Hypocrite?<\/h3>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2014who, unlike many politicians, writes for himself\u2014has an op-ed in the May 5 edition of USA Today entitled \u201cRon DeSantis says he\u2019s fighting \u2018woke\u2019 companies like Disney. But it\u2019s just a PR move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article raises an interesting question. To what extent in this presidential election, indeed in all elections, do we hold candidates responsible for their past sins? Shouldn\u2019t we just judge them by their improvements, by the good things?<\/p>\n<p>Secondarily, are those sins really in the past or are those improvements simply eyewash?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, do we need a Statute of Limitations on past sins? After all, Reagan and Churchill were once liberals, as was this columnist in the last century, as he is often reminded in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>For Ramaswamy, there is clearly hypocrisy involved with DeSantis. He isn\u2019t alone in the accusation. Trump has leveled the same charge at the Florida governor but the tech entrepreneur and author of \u201cWoke, Inc.\u201d has done it more precisely.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s the problem for DeSantis: as governor, he was also a purveyor of indefensible corporate welfare to Disney itself. In 2021, DeSantis signed a\u00a0political anti-discrimination statute\u00a0that penalized companies for engaging in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-does-elon-musks-stock-purchase-mean-for-twitter\/\" title=\"What Does Elon Musk\u2019s Stock Purchase Mean For Twitter?\">viewpoint-based censorship<\/a> on the internet. This was a signature piece of legislation in his anti-woke crusade, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-takes-on-desantis-over-fight-against-disney-and-wokeness\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy challenges DeSantis on Disney and wokeness.\">law specifically\u00a0exempts companies<\/a> in Florida\u00a0that own a theme park larger than 25 acres. Disney\u2019s internet properties and streaming services were exempted from a statute that was designed to stem corporate \u2018wokeness\u2019 in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How could that have happened? Ramaswamy explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis\u2019 own director of legislative affairs lobbied for the Disney loophole. DeSantis\u2019 chief budget officer, policy chief and his then-general counsel also worked behind the curtain to change the terms of the bill to create the special carve-out for Disney. This is the same Disney that DeSantis now claims to be fighting against.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>It remains to be seen how this will affect DeSantis\u2019 political future, but it\u2019s clear that his opponents are not going to let him off the hook easily. As voters, it\u2019s up to us to decide whether we want to hold candidates accountable for their past actions or judge them solely on their current platform. Either way, it\u2019s important to stay informed and engaged in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-impeachment-updates-house-reconvenes-to-debate-trump-impeachment\/\" title=\"Live impeachment updates: House reconvenes to debate Trump impeachment\">political process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Engage:<\/strong> Stay informed and engaged in the political process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hold accountable:<\/strong> Decide whether to hold candidates accountable for their past actions or judge them solely on their current platform.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stay informed:<\/strong> It remains to be seen how this will affect DeSantis\u2019 political future, but it\u2019s clear that his opponents are not going to let him off the hook easily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary \u201cTrouble ahead, trouble behind\u201d the Grateful Dead used to sing, and right now those lyrics are ringing true for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The \u201ctrouble ahead\u201d is obviously Donald J. Trump, who, at this point, is leaving the governor in the electoral dust in the Republican presidential derby. The \u201ctrouble behind\u201d is outsider candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":1925603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5533,4980,6344,18538,6227],"class_list":["post-1925602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-challenges","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-ramaswamy","tag-wokeness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}