On Wednesday, at a campaign rally event which was billed as a “press conference” (sans the press), speaking to an audience filled with people that chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he wants to create a statewide law enforcement apparatus whose only job would be to enforce “election integrity.” This would mean going after “election crimes.” The man best known as the architect of a public health policy that has led to the deaths of nearly 60,000 Floridians and counting, who deprived predominantly Black districts of representation for almost a year, would entrust creating an office of election crimes and security to “legal experts” and others tasked with ways of uncovering and investigating election fraud. Burping out drivel like, “People know that Florida stands for freedom,” DeSantis unveiled his (and the rest of his political party’s) only policy idea: voter suppression laws and activities. DeSantis, who has already signed draconian anti-democratic elections legislation cutting down the number of drop boxes available to citizens for voting, along with disallowing people to bring water to Floridians standing in long lines waiting to vote, is promising even more oppressive voting restrictions. Considering that DeSantis is up for reelection and has no policies to run on other than being one of the more popular death cult leaders in the GOP, adding more targeted restrictions to voting against Ron DeSantis is clearly his best chance at remaining in power. Read more