Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die, and crazy goes to live

Florida has always been a strange place and the butt of jokes but under its current governor it has become so strange that it’s hard to even satirise

Ron DeSantis' war on woke is going after Disney, school libraries, college courses and social media firms. Picture: Getty Images

Early on during my first stint reporting from America, I came to the inescapable conclusion that Florida is a law unto itself, a state unlike any other American state.

It’s not just that they pile up thousands of baby alligator heads – razor sharp teeth still intact -for sale at petrol stations. All the better to amuse fractious siblings who use them as lethal glove puppets on family road trips, the sales blurb suggests.

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