NBC News column: DeSantis is a ‘clearer danger than Trump,’ pushing ‘thought control’ like ‘Nazi Germany’

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An NBC News viewpoint column asserted Wednesday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ initiatives to ban CRT and protect young young children from staying taught about gender and sexuality in inappropriate techniques in public colleges, signifies “believed control that has transpired” in “Nazi Germany” or “today’s China.”

Prepared by previous federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut, the view piece, titled “Ron DeSantis has taken Trump’s playbook — and made it a lot more hazardous,” talked over how the Florida Republican has turned Trump’s “divisive converse into authentic (and truly harmful) action” that mirrors motion carried out in “totalitarian societies.”

Aftergut’s reasoning included a range of DeSantis’ new coverage conclusions which include the enactment of the Parental Rights in Instruction Monthly bill, but he was actually focused on the governor’s most recent initiative, which Aftergut explained as, “censoring math guides.”

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He wrote, “So it is come to this in Florida: censoring math books. Very last Saturday, the state’s education and learning board banned 54 of 132 textbooks submitted for inclusion in community schools’ math curricula.” 

He added, “The board explained it had decided to reject additional than half of the math textbooks submitted since they integrated ‘prohibited matters or unsolicited methods, like CRT.’”

Aftergut snarked, “Had been the textbooks’ algebraic equations by some means encoded with solution woke messages, like CRT Trojan horses?” and responded, “I would not maintain my breath for solutions.”

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The state of Florida produced several examples from the rejected math textbooks. One described the Implicit Affiliation Exam which measures levels of ‘racial prejudice’ when exhibiting a graph suggesting conservatives are far more inclined to be racially biased.

The other people built references to race and “social and psychological finding out” considered not healthy for the state’s math curriculum by Florida Department of Education. The Division mentioned it “is continuing to give publishers the possibility to remediate all deficiencies determined for the duration of the overview.”

Nonetheless, Aftergut claimed, “It’s all part of DeSantis’ bid to politicize schooling.” 

Aftergut added, “Unquestionably, what is happening now in Florida seems a large amount like the considered control that has took place in totalitarian societies. Regardless of whether in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or today’s China, the banning of guides is a central technique for strongmen. DeSantis has no qualms applying that playbook if he thinks it will gain him politically.”

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Following that, the author argued DeSantis could possibly finish up being additional popular than Donald Trump for the 2024 election cycle. 

“Trump’s popularity may perhaps have peaked. In the meantime, DeSantis’ political star is on the rise,” Aftergut mentioned.

“DeSantis presents an even clearer current and potential threat than Trump does,” he warned.  

“Continuously, exactly where Trump has sown divisive messages, DeSantis has additional to the harm by turning them into real (condition) coverage. Placing aside his divisive proposals on race, he’s also attacked the LGBTQ community and engendered a cruel homophobic backlash,” he additional, referring to the governor signing the parental legal rights monthly bill. 

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Aftergut also mentioned DeSantis’ thrust for the “Florida Legislature to punitively repeal Disney World’s correct to govern by itself on its property in the condition,” his success in “voter suppression” and “his press to broaden Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ statute though cracking down on protests.”

He concluded, “If he emerges as a countrywide applicant, get prepared to combat his brand of demagoguery.”

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.