Need any more evidence that our politics is upside down?
Check out the exchange between Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, and Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis on the whole free market, private sector, small government thing.
Polis was reacting to DeSantis’s remarkable (although now more or less routine) threats to retaliate against a private employer. DeSantis has targeted Disney for legislative punishment because of its position on the state’s new gender education law
On Tuesday morning, Florida State Representative Andrew Learned tweeted, “BREAKING: Governor DeSantis is seeking to turn today’s Special Legislative Session into a full-scale attack on Walt Disney World and Mickey Mouse. This isn’t a joke, this is 2022 and the modern Republican Party.”
Polis responded: