One wonders if Democrats actually listen to themselves talk. Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist offers an example.

Democrat Charlie Crist Calls Florida Gov. DeSantis “Evil,” Says His Campaign Is About “Love”

One wonders if Democrats actually listen to themselves talk. Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist offers an example.

One wonders if Democrats actually listen to themselves talk. Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist offers an example.

The longtime Florida politician had a reputation for being one of the genuinely nicest people in politics. But his years with the Democrats after flipping from the Republican Party seemingly have cured that.

On Wednesday, after he easily defeated Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried to become his party’s gubernatorial nominee, earning the right to take on incumbent GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, Crist told MSNBC his campaign was about “love.”

In response to a question about how he would fight DeSantis in the “culture war,” Crist replied, “He is on the battlefield of hate. I am on the battlefield of love.”

“I’m going to beat him because I’m running on love, and love always wins. If he wants to run on hate, culture wars, dividing people, and making people hate each other, that’s his turf. It’s not mine. I’m on a different plain. I’m on different turf, and it’s what Floridians deserve.”

“He’s torn my state apart,” Crist added. “I want to bring her back together.”

Yahoo News then reported how Crist will do that, as he then had his Clintonesque “basket of deplorables” moment.

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At his first press conference, he told reporters he would make no appeal to try to win over Republicans.

“Those who support the governor should stay with him,” Crist said. “I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there.”   

Let’s travel back in time all the way to June, when the love-filled Crist had some kind words for DeSantis.

“He’s out of his mind. He lost his mind,” Crist said during a Democratic rally in Orlando, according to Florida Politics. “Or, it may be worse.”

Crist then labeled DeSantis “evil,” and then repeated it, saying, “This is good versus evil in this election.”

As a reminder, DeSantis and other Republicans are the reactionaries in this culture war.

It’s Crist and his party who want schoolchildren to learn a warped view of American history in which whites are to blame for everyone else’s ills, and that the country’s founders must be disowned and all of history rewritten.

It’s Crist and his party who believe our military and police forces are filled with white supremacists, and who don’t want criminals held accountable if they happen to be minorities.

It’s Crist and his party who want kindergartners to learn gender ideology, explore their sexuality, and believe that men can have babies.

It’s Crist and his party that wants abortion up until the moment the baby’s head crowns.

It’s Crist and his party who want you masked up,  locked down, and vaxxed against your will because of a virus with a 99-percent survival rate.

It’s Crist and his party who routinely refer to former President Donald Trump and his rank-and-file supporters as Nazis, even as they are the ones who want to control every aspect of your life.   

It’s Crist and his party who have thrown open the southern border and want citizenship for anyone who can get here.

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It’s Crist and his party who want to eradicate or wildly change the Supreme Court and demolish the filibuster and claim small states should have less representation in the Senate, all because they cannot win at the ballot box.

It’s Crist and his party who want Americans who never went to college or who have already paid off their student loans to absorb the debts of deadbeats who refused to learn enough in college to support themselves in life. It’s Crist and his party who threw down the gauntlet to radically change all of American life and then whine when Republicans, like DeSantis, pick it up and say, “Game on.”

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Free Press.

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