On NBC's Meet the Press, moderator and former Democrat Party staffer Chuck Todd accused Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of playing politics when he told a Las Vegas audience that Florida was the first in the country to establish November 10 as the day Florida schools teach students about the dangers of communism. This clearly upset Todd, who seemed to realize this would make children less likely to grow up and vote Democrat since that's the party closest on the political spectrum to communism.
Turning to his assembled panel, Todd bemoaned: "I don't know if DeSantis is going to be talking to swing voters - here's like one of the things he said in Vegas yesterday. Take a listen to this." He then aired a soundbite of DeSantis bragging about one of his educational reforms:
We're also the first state in the country to establish every November 10, the day in our schools is earmarked to teach our students at all grade levels about the evils of communist regimes throughout history we're going to tell the truth about Marxism and Leninism.
Todd then spoke to one of the panelists, Politico's Jonathan Martin: "You know, Jonathan, it's sort of like, look, being a Floridian, I sort of know what he's trying to play there and all of that."
"I went to Florida public schools. We were taught this. It was called history," Todd insisted. "It just seems like a weird politicizing—you know, he's going out of his way to politicize something."
So, according to Todd, allowing pornographic books and racial indoctrination in schools was fine, but teaching children about the evils of communist regimes was "politicizing" education.
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The transcript is below:
NBC’s Meet the Press
3/12/2023
10:41:48 a.m.CHUCK TODD: I don't know if DeSantis is going to be talking to swing voters - here's like one of the things he said in Vegas yesterday. Take a listen to this.
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS: We're also the first state in the country to establish every November 10, the day in our schools is earmarked to teach our students at all grade levels about the evils of communist regimes throughout history we're going to tell the truth about Marxism and Leninism.
TODD: You know, Jonathan, it's sort of like, look, being a Floridian, I sort of know what he's trying to play there and all of that. But I would tell him, I went to Florida public schools we were taught this. It was called history. It just seems like a weird politicizing—you know he's going out of his way to politicize something.
