Don't. Say. Gay. OK?

Maybe I did not read carefully and missed it...

But from what I can see?  All of the prominent placeholders on the NYT editorial staff, here, evaluating Ron DeSantis' fitness as potential president of the United States?

Not one of them dared use the word transgender.  Or gay.  Not one.  This group -- from left to right, white to darker shades, older male to younger male, older female to younger, religious to skeptics, etc. ... but still in 2023, not one of them spoke up as a gay, bi, queer or trans person, or ally, to talk about DeSantis' attacks as a politician on sexual minorities.

Coaston He is in almost every way a standard presidential candidate — a successful governor of a big state looking to make the leap to the national stage. That seeming regularity makes him seem familiar, recognizable, even.

That's telling.  They're afraid to write the words, and discuss the implications of this man in leadership in our country today... imagine the schoolkids and working queers throughout the country watching DeSantis' political rise daily.

Our media, it seems, is content to sit quietly and not speak evil.

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* It's standard horserace coverage sampled from paid passers-by at the track.  Gentility newsg,athering. They talk about how shiny the coat, how much the crowd recognizes/cheers the names.  No indepth-analysis of the horses' breeding/physical traits or styles of running even.  God knows, this DeSantis is a mudder.

And a lot of money is being placed right now, as the latest ongoing, never-ending war rages ... "over there".  What -- or who -- will be sacrificed in this nation's fires to appease the media mouthpieces in lockstep and afraid, or too incurious and non-prescient, to speak out about what is happening here?

It is Ron DeSantis and his militaristic ilk who are the threat to democracy.  Not Florida businessman Donald Trump.  DeSantis will pervert Democracy and the personal freedoms all those journalists take for granted and cannot imagine losing...