Scarborough: What DeSantis Is Doing in Florida Is a ‘Top-Down, State-Centered, Authoritarianism Type Approach’

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SCARBOROUGH: "I’ve been told by so many people in Tallahassee over the past year or two that if you don’t like Donald Trump, you will hate Ron DeSantis. They don’t like Donald Trump, but they say he is -- he is like a tyrant. Again, these are Republicans. I don’t know a whole lot of Democrats in Tallahassee, to be honest with you. These are Republicans and they’ll say — like, they always tell me, 'Look at how he banned small business owners from implementing safety precautions during Covid, so they couldn’t keep their businesses open. Look at how he banned cruises, you know, cruise liners from doing the same thing, so they couldn’t make millions of dollars, they couldn’t operate. Look at how he went after, politically, to try to hurt the Tampa Bay Rays for posting a tweet after Uvalde in sympathy of the children there.' Of course, we have the war on Disney. There is fear. There is fear and loathing among all CEOs in the state of Florida. They won’t admit it on the record, but they say it to lobbyists all over the state. They’re like, 'We’re afraid. We can’t do anything because this guy will come after us for political purposes.' It’s just — it is a top-down, state-centered, like, authoritarianism-type approach, isn’t it?"