Meatball is term-limited, meaning on January 1, 2027, he’s out on his rather spacious rear end.

 

He won a squeaker in 2018, acted as if he’d won by a landslide, which he could do because of the huge edge the GOP had in the state legislature and the total hold on the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Meatball’s crazy anti-vaxx and COVID denialism stood him well politically when Floridians wanted schools and workplaces opened, even if it wasn’t safe.

Then he really went off the rails, trying to hurt Disney and Anheuser Busch, the two largest private employers in the state. He followed this up with attacks on drag shows, then book banning, then destroying higher education and secondary as well, and now he is talking about firing missiles into Mexico.

 

Did I mention he illegally had Black congressional districts vacated (restored by the courts) and is spreading horrific antisemitic tropes well embracing Nazis?

 

The man is crazy, and it’s plain for all to see. He has achieved the remarkable feat of being too extreme and crazy for MAGA World.

Republican politicians, watching Meatball crater nationally, understand he is cratering at home also, and they don’t want to be dragged down to defeat by his lunacy.

 

Every seat in the Florida House and half the state Senate is up for grabs next year.

The Republicans saw how they lost the long-held mayoralty of Jacksonville six months after Meatball carried the same area by eleven points.

 

If more Democrats are elected next year, and more Republicans seeing how Meatball has flamed out, there’s hope for some compromise and attention to the real issues facing Floridians: we lead the nation in inflation, violent crime, and insurance premiums unaffordable to so many Floridians. Meatball’s rants about transgenders, vaccination, and his extreme homophobia, antisemitism and racism have turned off enough Floridians so there’s hope for change.