Nikki Fried — who actually believed she could be elected governor of Florida — made a cringe-worthy campaign joke about Gov. Ron DeSantis being a dictator.

In case you didn’t get it, she Photoshopped DeSantis over a background of taters.

Now that he’s declared his candidacy, the good folks at The Guardian are helping “Florida groups” get out the warning that DeSantis is a dictator.

Richard Luscombe reports from the terrorist state of Florida:

Minority groups and others in Florida trampled by Ron DeSantis during his march to a White House run are warning of democracy in peril at a national level.

The rightwing Republican governor’s announcement on Wednesday that he was seeking his party’s 2024 presidential nomination provoked anger and a renewed promise of resistance from transgender rights advocates, immigrant organizations, and civil and voting rights groups in Florida, who have borne the brunt of his extremist policies and legislation.

One prominent Democratic state congresswoman called Florida “the canary in the coalmine” for the wider US as DeSantis prepares to hawk his hard-right brand on the national stage.

“His hard-right brand.” No, it’s not an opinion piece. This is just Luscombe getting a quote from every aggrieved activist group that exists to play the victim card. The NAACP, right.

Nope.

But he’s banning books and drag shows and not letting schools teach about slavery and outlawing books that even mention black people.

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