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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

China factor

Among the legislative measures adopted by Florida are a ban on purchase of real estate by Chinese nationals who are not American permanent residents; restrictions on access to TikTok; a ban on storing sensitive data on servers controlled by the Chinese regime

A future spelt out 175 years ago

These words were uttered by the famously intellectual Donald Trump, but he is by no means a soloist in his obnoxious milieu. It has become fairly commonplace, particularly among US Republicans, to deride anything seen as even mildly progressive as either communism or a pathway to a slip- pery slope.