What the morons appear to be saying is that one is not allowed to criticize socialism if the socialist candidate is a Negro? Am I wrong?
Lest we forget what DeSantis actually siad: "“The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state.”
Did he say anything at all about the socialist candidate? No. He spoke about embracing a socialist agenda. Referring to the fact that a socialist agenda would result in huge tax increases and the resulting bankruptcy of Florida.
The whole interview was about his opponent. He went into detail about how he watched him (the opponent) and how well he did against his primary competition. Even called him 'articulate'. There's your context; the other guy had just won, and was now DeSantis' opponent. So that's the subject of the interview ---- after which, again, Fox News disclaimed it with "we don't condone that kind of language".
Suppose he had said --- he didn't but suppose he did --- "the last thing we need to do is Jew down our state budget" in a race where his opponent was Jewish. Would you still be here spinning it away as "hey, 'Jew down' is a common expression (it is after all more common than
monkey up) and meant nothing about the opponent" --- just because the speaker has an R behind his name?
You don't have to answer. We know.