Finally, finally.
A red state governor FINALLY did something to change the orientation of hyper-leftwing colleges.
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday made six new appointments to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees, including Manhattan Senior Fellow Christopher F. Rufo.
Rufo’s work has been featured on PBS, Netflix, and international television and has been notable for challenging critical race theory.
The New College of Florida in Sarasota, is a top-ranked public liberal arts college and is the designated honors college of the state university system.
DeSantis’ news press secretary Bryan Griffin sent a statement to Fox News Digital claiming that the academic institution has been “captured by a political ideology that puts trendy, truth-relative concepts above learning.”
“All of these appointees have a firsthand understanding of the Florida education system as a product of their work with us and the Florida Department of Education on other important initiatives. We are grateful to them for lending their time and expertise to the benefit of Florida’s students,” the DeSantis office told Fox News Digital.
“The New College of Florida is a public institution with a statutorily stated mission of ‘provid[ing] a quality education.’ Unfortunately, like so many colleges and universities in America, this institution has been completely captured by a political ideology that puts trendy, truth-relative concepts above learning.”
The statement added, “In particular, New College of Florida has reached a moment of critical mass, wherein low student enrollment and other financial stresses have emerged from its skewed focus and impractical course offerings.””
It’s about damn time! Sure this is one college in something like 3,200 colleges in America. Sure there will be battles from day one and the feds will punish the college every chance it gets. But it’s a step in the right damn direction. Now every other red state governor should do the exact same thing over and over again.
This DeSantis guy is pretty good. He’s doing the right things. He’s thinking clearly about how things can be changed and he’s reaching out to good people to do those things. He’s making Florida a much better place. That’s got to be a good thing. Whether he should be president or vice president is a different question. Maybe he should stay as governor of Florida and maybe end up the de facto leader of the red state coalition. But any way you look at it he’s making a real difference. Bravo.
We need a bunch of DeSantises over a multi-decade time frame. The progressives definitely had multiples of scores of DeSantis antithesis politicians and moles over 50+ years.
It’s a bitter pill to swallow but we were fooled by men who claimed they were like us and absolutely weren’t. Well, just like Trump, he’s a start.