In order to prove to the rest of the nation that Florida is a place to leave rather than visit or move to, Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday announced that he would be ordering American flags in the state to be lowered to half staff in honor of a rank demented scoundrel, the ultimate master of hate-mongering whom even Donald Trump took lessons from, and an exemplar of the nadir of humanity that rivals even the likes of Goebbels and Torquemada.
DeSantis, of course, is of the same pedigree as Limbaugh, an aspirant one could rightly say to Limbaugh’s bile-suffused mastery of disgusting public discourse, so this bit of noxious news isn’t surprising — but that doesn’t make it any less disgusting. Not even the fact that the honoring of a mud-slinging piece of excrement like Limbaugh violates the Florida protocol that governs flag lowering can make this latest instance of sneering, goading right-wing officialdom more heinous than it already is.
On the up side, though, at least those Floridians who’ve been laboring under the delusion that their state government is anything other than the promotional arm of a budding fascist dystopia now have face-slappingly clear evidence of their actual plight.