The Courage to Be Free Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited Iowa last week for his book tour, prompting the New York Times headline, 'A Glimpse of DeSantis in Iowa'.

He talks about how we did an outsource decision-making on COVID to Fauci and creating a Faucian dystopia or a quote biomedical security state.

He has a whole section about how smart he was going behind the scenes to do that implication. There are some Republicans who are unable to smartly do anything behind the scenes.

I wanted to move the embassy to Jerusalem. He had to get Trump on board.

He is the... Like, the Tea Party seed planted in 2011, that is him. That is the Mark Meadows version of things.

Trump was president for four years. Trump didn't do that. Trump never thought of attaching.

Do you guys know, have we talked about what DeSantis' book that's coming out, I think in February is called?

Oh, The Courage to be Free.

Courage to be Free.

You nailed it. Both of you. Wow. Well, cause I pre-ordered obviously.

That's a good one. Gotta get my sign copy. The Courage to be Free. Of course. Sure, Mike.

He talks about how we did an outsource decision-making on COVID to Fauci and creating a Faucian dystopia or a quote biomedical security state.

Everything you mentioned is about Trump. He does that in his book too.

I did a speed read right as soon as it was coming out and the stuff that jumps out is it's not just how he retells the stories, but he'll mention. And then the White House got this wrong or even the way that he...

The whole Disney thing, which I don't need to recapitulate the whole thing, but basically he legislatively, the way he took away the Disney state in Central Florida was attaching it at the very end of a special session.

He has a whole section about how smart he was going behind the scenes to do that implication. There are some Republicans who are unable to smartly do anything behind the scenes. It leaks the front page of New York Times. It leaks on...

DeSantis is kicking off what appears to be a pre-presidential announcement MAGA Media Tour for his new book, The Courage to Be Free,

which the New York Times is calling Culture War Mad Libs with a dull coldness at its core that reads like a politician's memoir churned out by chat GPT.

Doesn't the book tour doesn't exist to promote the book. The book exists to promote the tour.

I do think this book is like right in the fucking center of the target of exactly the kind of shit Rhonda Santas would would produce.

woke ideology is bad Florida good generic biography.

Do you guys know, have we talked about what DeSantis' book that's coming out, I think in February is called?

Oh, The Courage to be Free.

Courage to be Free.

You nailed it. Both of you.

Well, cause I pre-ordered obviously. That's a good one. Gotta get my sign copy.

I've been reading Ron DeSantis' book, The Courage to be Free, Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival.

So Ron DeSantis' book is called The Courage to be Free.

This book is by and large an enemies list. And for DeSantis, that's the news media, which he always prefaces with like, you know, the corporate media or the legacy media. It's big tech, which he calls the censorship arm of the left, the administrative state, ... the biggest one, of course, is wokeness.

In the epilogue to The Courage to Be Free, he says, clearly our administration was substantively consequential.

Are you saying you haven't all read The Courage to be Free? Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival.

I've witnessed Florida's Blueprint. I don't know why. I have eyes to see and ears to hear.

He has a real script because a lot of it is verbatim from The Courage to be Free. Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival. Hashtag trademark.

Ron DeSantis hasn't made any announcements yet, but he did just release a book called The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for American Revival.

Book is published by HarperCollins, owned by Fox and so on.

He's going on a tour. He's got a new book out. Apparently he's going to South Carolina and New Hampshire and Iowa.

He's got a new book out. Apparently he's going to South Carolina and New Hampshire and Iowa.

It's a fake excuse to go to Iowa.

I read the whole thing. Not one disparaging word about president Trump.

I think that he wrote a book recently was published right and uh the courage to be free I think And I read it I went from beginning to end and it was a nice book good biography

But I don't think enough of him was in it like he talked about his whole baseball career Right, he played baseball in high school and college very proud

But I feel like he needed to be more there's something wrong with the book because it never told me what position he played

It's called The Courage to Be Free, for the most part.

for the most part, The Courage to Be Free is courageously free of anything that resembles charisma or discernible sense of humor. Much like the author.

this one reads like a politician's memoir churned out by chat GPT.

But if you read the book, by the way, do I have the book? I don't have the book on the desk right now. But if you read DeSantis' book, he's very complimentary towards Trump actually and credits him where credit is deserved.

That's what his book is about, 'The Courage to Be Free,' which came out last week.

His book about the Florida blueprint came out yesterday, The Courage to Be Free.

So the title of the book is The Courage to be Free, I've heard you obviously publicly and privately talk about fighting with the media.

if you're somebody that thinks in this day and age, standing for the right things is going to be cost-free, then you're in the wrong line of work.

But ultimately, if we want to maintain Florida as a free state and if we want to have a revival across America where our true principles are honored, that makes us unique, you're going to have to fight these fights and you are going to have to pay a certain price in terms of what people say about you and the opposition that you generate.

if people go to DeSantisBook.com, they can see some of the policies that kind of led to that.

That's why you deal with all the BS that you got to deal with, because ultimately, you know, you're helping make people's lives better. And we've been able to do that here.

His book, "The Courage to be Free." "The Courage to be Free?"

The Courage to be Free is out today.

it's really all it's called the courage to be free, but it's really about his Florida blueprint right

all the culture war mad libs can't distract from the dull coldness at this book's core and that it will leave some supporters who have encouraged DeSantis to humanize himself sorely disappointed

the most revealing and consequential element of the book is the insistence that the role of slavery and race more broadly does not seriously change anything about how we should understand the birth and development of our country.

His book, by the way, debuted this week, number one on The New York Times bestseller list.

but it did have the little asterisk next to it that meant bulk orders made up a lot of the sales, which usually means political groups and friends of a candidate or politician having something to do with that.

He released a book last year and it's called The Courage to Be Free.

He talks about his fairy tale wedding to journalist Casey Black DeSantis.

He says, Casey's family was what one might call a family of Disney enthusiasts.

They loved going to Disney World.

He wrote in a chapter titled The Magic Kingdom of Woke Corporatism.

In fact, at the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to the White House that was different from Joe Biden is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was nowhere on the grounds.

So you write about lessons learned in leadership and you bring up some specific incidents I want to ask you about. You talk about meeting some world leaders and one specific one, quote, 'I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, I'm sure he underestimated me having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. I've been a children's pastor after all.' Did you meet Kim Jong-un?

Well, you know, as soon as this was brought to my attention, I certainly made some changes and looked at this passage and I've met with many, many world leaders. I've traveled around the world. As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits.

So you did not meet with Kim Jong-un? That's what you're saying.

No, I met with many, many world leaders, many world leaders. I've traveled around the world. I think I've talked extensively in this book about my time serving in Congress, my time as governor before governor, some of the travels that I've had. I'm not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders. I'm just not going to do that.

Some Republicans get in the office and they basically act like potted plants they don't want to lead they worry about what the media is going to say about them they just kind of hope to not have to make decisions until something they're actually forced to do it

I said that's not what we're doing in Florida we're going on offense in the state of Florida I'm gonna get out in front of issues I'm gonna be leading on issues I don't care what the left says I don't care what the media says we are going to deliver big victories