“We Win. They Lose.” That was the headline Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) put on the 10-point economic plan he rolled out in a Rochester, N.H. warehouse Monday. For DeSantis, the “we” are working and middle-class Americans. “They” are the Communist regime in China, along with America’s political elites, with a record of failure from the 2008 Wall Street bailout to COVID.
In his speech to a clearly pro-DeSantis crowd, the Florida governor laid out an economic approach that featured some traditional Republican politics like reducing business regulations and “unleashing American energy independence.” At the same time, he also advanced ideas to confront what he sees as a rise of “woke” politics in economic policy, such as politically-directed ESG investing.