When you know, you know.
When you know, you know.
It’s time
It’s time to go.
——Lana Del Rey, “Paris, Texas”
Life in Florida these days is deceptively normal, even in areas that were battered by Hurricane Ian. The sun is out, the sky is blue, and the tourists have mostly gone home. Everything is as it should be.
Except it isn’t. DeSantis and the GOP-dominated Florida Legislature are engaging in an assault on liberal democracy on a wide range of fronts. No one who criticizes the governor is safe from retaliation–except Trump, of course, who is opportunistically taking the side of the angels on some of these issues.
Barring some last minute, unforeseen issues with our house, we are leaving for the mountains tomorrow. We will be happy to be out of DeSantistan for six months. Of course, the GOP obtained a supermajority in the NC legislature by flipping a Democrat from a Biden district, so we may be going from the frying pan to the fire. We’ll see.