Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Owe Anybody an Explanation for Groups He’s Not a Part Of – Opinion

By now, you’ve seen the big deal the media made out of “Nazis” hanging out in front of the Tampa, Florida, convention center where Turning Point USA was holding its Student Action Summit. It became a big enough deal that “The View” decided to try to equate the attendees with Nazis, which they spent every episode since having to walk back thanks to TPUSA threatening lawsuits.

(READ: Whoopi Goldberg Finally Apologizes for Trying to Connect TPUSA’s Student Attendees With Nazis)

Still, one of the talking points was that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis didn’t say anything to denounce the Nazis outside the convention center, and according to the media, this naturally means he’s okay with them. Naturally, this leads many lefties to the natural endpoint of “DeSantis and Nazis are working together.”

As I said during Monday’s episode of RedState LIVE!, it’s ridiculous that DeSantis has to automatically denounce everything around him, whether he’s associated with it or not. That, and I brought up a very obvious double standard…

Why? @GovRonDeSantishe must denounce everything that is happening around him, when people like @AOCCan she keep her mouth shut when being asked if Antifa violence is condemned with no backlash? DeSantis is a great example of not being manipulated by the media. pic.twitter.com/1Ho0P31jPi

— RedState (@RedState) July 29, 2022

Apparently, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t have to follow the same rules. AOC was asked by the press if she condemned domestic terrorist acts when Antifa celebrated violence at the border.

The result?

The response did not come back.

.@AOCRefuses to condemn Antifa’s attack on Tacoma ICE centre; won’t tell @TheRealKeean if her inflammatory comments about “concentration camps” radicalized the attacker. pic.twitter.com/YOjn0yL032

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) July 15, 2019

Let’s break this down. AOC was asked to immediately condemn the terrorist attack of Antifa on government officials at border. It was clear what group the attacker belonged to, what his intentions were, and all AOC had to do was say “yes, I do condemn it.”

But she refused. However, she refused.

Yet, despite the fact that DeSantis was never directly asked by the media and likely didn’t even know the Nazis were outside until much later, he’s still expected to automatically denounce them, or else he’s with them.

This is the left’s lazy activist journalism on display. It is absurd to expect someone to condemn every little thing, without being asked. If that was the case, then DeSantis would spend the vast majority of his day making declarations and sending out tweets that make it clear he’s not for the bad thing or the bad people that just appeared in front of a working camera. But it wouldn’t really matter. The left wouldn’t believe him anyway.

It is best to follow the example of DeSantis, and not play their rigged games.

This isn’t the first time the Florida Governor’s been confronted with answering for groups he’s not a part of. The Guardian reported that DeSantis had been asked earlier this year by The Guardian to condemn a group neo Nazis.

A group of 15-20 protesters wore Nazi-inspired symbols on Saturday and Sunday and shouted anti-Semitic slogans along the North Alafaya Trail, Orlando. According to videos that quickly circulated across social media, the protesters gave Nazi salutes, yelled “White power!”, waved an anti-Biden banner and at one point got into a brawl with a driver.

They were met with disgust Democrats and Republicans alike. However, DeSantis did not publicly condemn the marchers until Monday during a press conference,And then largely to deflect blame on to his political opponents.

“So what I’m going to say is these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something to do with that, we’re not playing their game,” he said.

DeSantis was able to see through the situation then and he can now. Everyone else needs to be aware of the subtly orchestrated attempts to accuse and name-call Republicans.