Dems. it s all happened by design. a quarter century of conservative design. the gop has long made florida playground for big donors, and a testing ground for conservative political experiment. can you maintain your party s control of the state with a narrow majority votes? can you govern with cultural legislation, and still stay in power? even before the most famous florida man descended from the trump tower escalator in 2015, floridians knew the answer to all these questions was yes. if you want to picture of what america might be headed, a bitterly divided country facing the rollback of basic lights while real problems go on addressed, you have to look at florida. the sunshine state matters because what happens in florida, doesn t stay in florida. think about this, the next republican presidential nominee, perhaps the next president of the united states is one of two men who currently reside in florida. joining me now, three floridians. brick wilson, former republican
Strategist, cofounder of the anti trump lincoln project. author of running against the devil, brought to us and democrats from themself. democratic of the strange days podcast. he s also msnbc political analyst. my family katie fang, host of the katy franco. she s also an msnbc legal contributor. welcome all of you. let me start with a very blunt question. guys, why is florida? why is it like? this because when it comes to autocratic tendencies, ron desantis is says, i can now do you. i have jokingly, yet seriously always had the florida s epicenter of all things that i can t really say without getting bleeped out. it is a very sad state of affairs that we are leading the charge and inability to be able to get rid of any type of freedoms that you would want to exercise. i am the mother of a first grader, she seven years old,
Continue. watch. wages too high, we re not going to be able to compete against the world, i hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. people have to go out, they have to work really hard, and they have to get into that upper stratum. well, one republican media consultant, brick wilson, said this about you, to find somebody who can remove the trump image from billionaire mogul with swagger and morph him into a heartless ceo jerk, this is a different race. so how do you avoid someone morphing you into a heartless ceo jerk when you re talking about wages having to stay the same, in a time when populist candidates are on the move? well, i know this guy. and he s third rate. let me explain. that was on minimum wage and it was how we re going to compete with other countries. because, when we re, you know, they were talking about increasing the minimum wage. and whether it s taxes, or wages, if they re too high, we re not going to be able to compete with other countries. yo