« Reply #76 on: August 29, 2018, 09:07:45 PM »
If DeSantis isn't racist, then he's stupid. Either way, he doesn't deserve to get elected. But....there will definitely be a unhealthy portion of voters in Florida that will love this, which is sad.
He's not stupid, either. It's a common phrase. He just didn't stop to think about those he could pretend offend before he spoke.
Next media firestorm: GOP candidate says socialism is "gumming up the works", offends teething babies and elderly without teeth.
Then he really screwed up in a really bad way at the worst time.
Personally, the way this President is dividing this country and the way DeSantis has embraced Trump, I won't completely dismiss the possibility that he meant in in a racist way.
I'm much more liberal than Roy and I saw absolutely nothing wrong with the usage of that phrase in that context. And unlike many common phrases from the past that one had nothing to do with racism in its origin.

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