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“The Florida of Today Is the America of Tomorrow”: Ron DeSantis’s New College Takeover Is Just the Beginning of the Right’s Higher Ed Crusade
Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Kathryn Joyce takes a deep dive into Ron DeSantis’s higher education crusade in Florida, and the chilling remaking of one of the state’s liberal arts schools into a “Hillsdale of the South.” Joe Biden made his way to DeSantis’s backyard Thursday, riding a wave of momentum from his fiery State of the Union speech, Eric Lutz reports. Will that do anything to loosen the GOP’s death grip on Florida? Lutz says it’s hard to tell.
Meanwhile, top Republican donors and strategists, terrified that Donald Trump will win the GOP nomination and lose the presidential election to Biden, are urging White House hopefuls to act strategically in the primary, Bess Levin writes. But so far, as Caleb Ecarma notes, it looks like the 2024 Republican presidential primary might shape up to be a lot like the one in 2016, with Nikki Haley likely announcing next week and GOP governors Chris Sununu and Brian Kemp reportedly eager to jump in too. Elsewhere, Levin finds Missouri Republicans voting to affirm the right of children to carry guns in public without adult supervision. Thanks for reading.
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“The Florida of Today Is the America of Tomorrow”: Ron DeSantis’s New College Takeover Is Just the Beginning of the Right’s Higher Ed Crusade
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Republican politicians and right-wing activists are transforming one of the Sunshine State’s liberal arts schools into the “Hillsdale of the South,” a strategy that could be replicated across the country. As one New College alum tells Vanity Fair, “I weep for our nation if DeSantis wins a presidential bid.”
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