I don’t think building a prison next to a place that you bring your family is the best idea,” House Speaker pro tem Kevin McCarthy says in Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s ongoing authoritative effort to subvert corporate free speech rights.  “I think it would be much better if you sat down and solved the problems but to the same point, if you’re going to be a large employer in-inside this, uh, state you should also abide by the rules, run your business and don’t think you should get into politics.”

Remember when Republicans reveled after the Supreme Court released its Citizens United ruling which essentially bestowed the right to free speech free from government censorship guaranteed to individuals in the Constitution?  Well, they don’t like the decision anymore given that corporations are largely rejecting the Party’s phobic and hateful policies, exemplified by DeSantis’s oppressive “Don’t Say Gay” demands on schools, universities and public institutions.  And companies operating in Florida–including Disney, the state’s largest private employer–have made it know they’ll largely ignore DeSantis’s dictates subjugating the LGBTQ community and their allies.  But it’s now up to people like McCarthy to clean up the ongoing mess in Florida:  While DeSantis is in Israel to prop up his weak foreign policy bone fides to prep for a presidential run, Republicans are left to take to the airwaves to try to clean up his dictatorial mandates to try shift the Party from the hateful, impotent and petty grievances voiced by people like Tucker Carlson and DeSantis himself.