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What Hath Ron Wrought? [1]

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Date: 2023-05-13  

Florida “governor” Ron DeSantis is doing a bang up job in covering all the spaces on his running-for-president-of-MAGAland card. Anti-vax. LGBTQ demonization. Persecution of students, teachers and just about anyone interested in learning.

This past Wednesday, the “governor” held a press event at which he signed SB 1718, a bill weaponizing state law enforcement against immigrants. The new law increases penalties on businesses that hire undocumented workers and steps up DeSantis’ signature trick of transporting migrants to “liberal” locales in other states.

The law, which takes effect in July, is alarming farmers and food companies as undocumented workers, like it or not, are an essential part of the agricultural economy of the state, which could well be crippled by this xenophobic kabuki.

While the rest of us await staggering inflation in the produce aisle, Floridians should expect much more immediate inflation in everything they purchase.

Houston journalist Arturo Dominguez posted on Twitter this morning that he’s seeing numerous posts on Spanish-language social media from truck drivers talking about boycotting Florida in the wake of SB 1718:

Spanish language social media has exploded with Latino truck drivers calling for a boycott and refusing to take shipments into Florida. Things are about to get interesting.

“Interesting” will hardly suffice to describe the immediate economic future of the Sunshine State if such a boycott materializes. Nearly a fifth of America’s professional truck drivers identify as Hispanic or Latino. If a significant number of that subset also identify as “pissed off at DeSantis,” the state could be looking at dramatic challenges in the very near future, primarily immediate and dramatic price increases on everything that rolls down the interstate, which is pretty much everything people use.

At the press preening where DeSantis signed SB 1718 into law, the “governor” remarked, “We’re bracing for some turbulent times ahead.”

I’m not sure he understands just how turbulent they might get, and that right quick.

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