As I’ve argued in this space before, crazy-ass Florida is in many ways an apt microcosm of crazy-ass America, with coastal liberal and moderate population centers serving as a bulwark to contain the bubbling reactionary bile from the interior so it doesn’t overflow and wash everything sane and good into the sea.
Just as it matters very much who is elected president, it matters who is governor of Florida or any other state. But the composition of the legislature matters a great deal too. Florida is currently demonstrating what happens when the levee breaks.
Comically obvious supervillain Rick Scott is the current governor, and he has a Legion of Doom to carry out his evil schemes in the wingnut supermajority Florida statehouse, which, as befits an assemblage of dickheads, convenes in a laughably phallic facility:
Like most conservative small government champions, Scott is in favor of policing the hoohah of every female constituent and compelling groups of citizens to piss in a cup. Last Friday, Scott signed legislation to end preventive health funding to Planned Parenthood and regulate abortion clinics out of existence.