What the two Bizarro World book reviews show is DeSantis’s commitment to railing against any pro-integration, anti-slavery arguments lobbed at the Supreme Court or the Founding Fathers. This starts with his rebuke of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s decision to criticize the collective of long-dead racists for baking white supremacy into American culture,
with DeSantis writing that Marshall’s “failure overshadows the numerous and long-lasting political achievements embodied in the structural foundations of the government that have nothing to do with the institution of slavery.” DeSantis went on to write that Marshall was dead wrong in his criticisms because the “philosophical foundations of the Constitution are incompatible with slavery.”
The line fits with the general worldview promoted by
DeSantis and his ilk. The Ledger and
New Times both reported that DeSantis went on to claim the so-called “Three-Fifths Compromise” in the Constitution, which counted enslaved Americans as three-fifths of a person, actually “benefitted anti-slavery states.” Simply stated, Southerners wanted the compromise because it meant more bodies counted toward representation while continuing to summarily deny those same people their basic human rights. The only people the compromise benefitted were white citizens, and then mostly the literate landowners who could actually participate in the voting process.
You can
go read the full manifesto yourself, but for the sake of the remaining brain cells that have survived the past two years, maybe just take my word for it that it very much is exactly what one would expect from a man (and potentially future governor!) who has
done nothing but
show his racist ass for the
entirety of his campaign and
political career.
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