A Doughty DeSantis Takes on the Longshoremen

‘It is unacceptable,’ the governor of Florida declares, ‘for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supply chain interruptions to hurt people who are reeling from a category 4 hurricane.’

Via the governor's X account
Governor DeSantis at Manatee County, Florida, October 3, 2024. Via the governor's X account

Hats off to Governor DeSantis for standing up to labor militancy and deploying the Florida National Guard in an effort to reopen the state’s ports, which are bottled up by the Longshoremen’s strike. Mr. Desantis’s show of spine is all the more welcome in light of President Biden refusing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to get commerce moving. Even President Trump seems more sympathetic to the strikers than concerned by the economic impact.

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