Do you remember that time the Republican governor of Florida passed a law and the CEO of Disney said he didn’t like the law and the Republican governor of Florida used the power of his state government to financially retaliate against the Disney corporation?
Here’s what Disney said at the time:
Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.
That’s a severely limited statement. It’s not an attack on “Republicans.” It’s not a condemnation of Gov. Ron DeSantis. It’s not electioneering around a candidate or a party. It’s a specific corporate goal announcing that it is in the company’s business interests for this one law to be removed from the books, either by the legislature itself or the courts.
In response, Republicans lost their shit and decided to revoke a 50-year-old law designed to promote Disney’s business (and thus increase Florida’s tax base).
(Please note that last phrase: “keep an eye on you.”)
Anyway, there was lots and lots and lots of this.
A serious question: Does Republican hypocrisy ever just push you into tilt? Because that’s how I feel right about now.
What’s happening is not that the Dems are doing something the R’s do all the time and the R’s are waving their hands and getting upset about it.
No. The Democrats pointedly are not doing what the R’s do. And in response the R’s are (1) pretending that they are, while (2) waving their hands getting upset about it.
Again: It’s projection. It’s always, always projection.