“I’ll warn you; this plan is not for the faint of heart,” Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, writes in the introduction to his 11-point plan, which he said he hoped would “strike fear in the heart of some Republicans.”
“Public schools will teach our children to love America because, while not perfect, it is exceptional, it is good, and it is a beacon of freedom in an often-dark world,” the plans states, while repeatedly trying to craft a contrast to what Scott calls “the woke left” and “wokeness.”
The GOP senator, a former governor who could harbor higher political ambitions, also calls for eliminating what he labeled “racial politics” throughout the rest of the country, saying that under GOP leadership, Americans would not be asked to disclose their race, ethnicity or skin color on government forms.
Republicans have repeatedly used rising crime to attack Democrats, often misleadingly tying candidates to the “defund the police” movement. Scott strikes a similar chord, calling for full funding for police and increasing penalties for theft and violent crime.
As the GOP did throughout the 2020 cycle, Scott takes aim at socialism, writing that it “will be treated as a foreign combatant which aims to destroy our prosperity and freedom.” He ties that message into a call for shrinking the federal government, including by reducing the government work force by 25% in five years and selling off government buildings and assets.
His call to clean house in Washington, DC, extends to Congress, which he wants to have 12-year limits for lawmakers. He’d like “government bureaucrats” to have the same limits. And despite his call for more Americans to pay an income tax, Scott wants to “immediately cut the IRS funding and workforce by 50%.”
“We will reject both the roots and the adherents of cancel culture in America,” Scott writes, echoing language that Trump often uses, including calling for social media platforms that regulate content “to be treated like publishers and subject to legal action.”
Source : CNN