outraged at this retaliation against chick-fil-a s perceived political or cultural viewpoints. what san antonio did was unconstitutional. what florida is doing is unconstitutional. it is the top of the hour and we re rolling into the fourth hour of morning joe. coming up, we have the former u.s. ambassador to russia and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine to talk about the latest moves in the russian invasion of ukraine. but continuing on desantis, disney, and the culture wars, david, your latest article in the atlantic is entitled free speech for me but not for thee. in it, you write in part, as the republican party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and the morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education, and in private corporations. driven by a combination of partisan animosity and publ
Cheers on the twitter crowd, it s especially in the florida situation, he s taking aim at disney but hitting the 1st amendment. look, it s been the law for a long time in this country that you can t administer you can t deny a benefit, a government benefit, based on punitive political retaliation. there s a case going back years, 1996, involving a towing company in illinois that was taken off a list because the towing company wouldn t support the current mayor s re-election effort. the supreme court said you can t do this. this is basic stuff you don t politically retaliate on the basis of the political or cultural stance of a corporation. you know what, joe, i remember the year 2019, all the way back in 2019, when san antonio wouldn t let chick-fil-a operate in its airport. and conservatives were rightly
Outraged at this retaliation against chick-fil-a s perceived political or cultural viewpoints. what san antonio did was unconstitutional. what florida is doing is unconstitutional. it is the top of the hour and we re rolling into the fourth hour of morning joe. coming up, we have the former u.s. ambassador to russia and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine to talk about the latest moves in the russian invasion of ukraine. but continuing on desantis, disney, and the culture wars, david, your latest article in the atlantic is entitled free speech for me but not for thee. in it, you write in part, as the republican party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and the morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education, and in
Conservative movement and the american people, we ve seen the right become much more pow you louse, more more nationalistic, much more like overseas, and we ve seen the right embrace a strategy of using political power, which they are very good at getting, to attack the cultural power of the left. i think that s what s happening here in the disney case. they re responding and punishing disney for coming out so strongly against the florida parental education law. matt, elise jordan here. i m really excited for your book. i ve always enjoyed your writing. this is such an important topic. but could you tell me how in the book you address the authoritarian strain that really has come into focus on the right? that s what i ve observed over the last four years working with a polling group, going around doing over 100 focus groups. what has surprised me is the shift in thought on the right towards a more authoritarian-leaning philosophy.
It just seems to me that corporations, instead of having the conversation with their employees, instead of doing it thoughtfully, they move quickly, too often they overreact and they find themselves in the position mlb and disnigh found themselves in. yeah. disney was in a tough position. they didn t come out initially against it. i agree most people don t want sexual orientation brought up. but what happens when it s time to draw your family s picture in class and a little boy draws a picture of his two mommys or daddies? it s certainly not a black-and-white issue, but the problem disney had was they didn t react initially, then came forward and got blasted for it. if korngs had their way, they d be completely agnostic. disney did a misstep. you can t err on the side of carefulness, and i think you