DeSantis offers conservatives a roadmap for how to fight the culture wars and win
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The 2022 midterm elections are in the books and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the big winner. Here's how he managed to outperform other Republicans in the November elections.
DeSantis has shown conservatives how to fight—and win Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Sign up for his newsletter here.
How did DeSantis outperform the rest of the GOP? The answer, I believe, is that he has created a new model for "culture war as public policy," which combines popular media combat with competent, effective governance.
DeSantis has built his profile by engaging in controversial cultural fights on critical race theory, gender ideology, and other "woke" issues. In his election night victory speech, DeSantis framed himself as a culture war champion. "We fight the woke in the legislature. We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations," he said. "We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die."
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