The Lemmings of the Sunshine State: Our Cheerful March Toward the Cliff
Grab your SPF 50 and strap on your water wings, folks, because the latest University of North Florida survey is in, and it confirms what anthropologists have suspected for years: nearly half the voting population of Florida is not merely resigned to a race to the bottom, they are running toward it with pom-poms, completely ecstatic about the descent. According to the numbers, 49 percent of likely voters in this state look at Byron Donalds, a man whose governing philosophy essentially boils down to rubber-stamping corporate handouts, dismantling the public commons, and turning cable-news grievance into state policy, and say, "Yes, please. Give me four full years of whatever that is." David Jolly sits right behind at 47 percent, separated by a margin so thin you couldn't slide a property insurance cancellation notice between them. But the fact that 49 percent of the electorate is actively lining up behind Donalds isn't just an electoral horse race; it is an existen...