So there was a gay pride rally in Florida and a guy drove his car into the crowd. Bastard. A local Democrat politician denounced this as yet more right wing terrorism and pretty soon folks were linking this outrage to the state’s Republican Governor, Ron deSantis, hated by liberal bien pensants for, inter alia, having limited mask rules and relaxed lockdown rules something which has not actually seen cases surge but who cares it was wrong anyway. The hashtag #DeathSantis continued long after the facts emerged…
The car driver was not only gay but was on the organising committe of the march. He was high on drugs and pressed the accelerator not the brake pedal as a result.
Still why let the facts get in the way of a good narrative? #DeathSantis continued to trend.
