Ep. 138: In Defense of DeSantis
The Liz Wheeler Show
Blaze Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Republican Party is at a crossroads over, right now it's focused over this fight between |
| 0:07.0 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Disney. |
| 0:10.9 | And the reason I say that the Republican Party is at a crossroads is because within the |
| 0:14.6 | conservative movement there are two schools of thought on what DeSantis has done, stripping |
| 0:21.0 | Disney of their special governing status in the state of Florida. |
| 0:24.1 | And by the way, this is something that is not noted enough. |
| 0:26.6 | It wasn't just DeSantis via executive order or unilaterally who stripped Disney of their |
| 0:31.6 | special governing status. |
| 0:32.6 | This was done by the legislature and it was signed into law by Governor DeSantis. |
| 0:37.1 | So it is the people's representatives in the Florida State House, the Florida State |
| 0:40.8 | Legislature and the governor who jointly as it should be done did this to Disney revoked |
| 0:46.5 | their special governing status. |
| 0:48.0 | And the first thing that we should be asking here before we even get to the question of, |
| 0:51.8 | was this the right thing to do? |
| 0:53.5 | Was it or was it not? |
| 0:55.0 | And what does this mean? |
| 0:56.3 | We should be asking why this happened because the argument that's coming from some within |
| 1:00.2 | the Republican Party who are against what DeSantis did is they say that this is a violation |
| 1:05.0 | of free speech. |
| 1:06.0 | This is setting a dangerous precedent. |
| 1:08.0 | They say that this is retaliation. |
| 1:10.0 | This was DeSantis retaliating against Disney because Disney chose a political position that |
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