5. Different Types of Freedom

DeSantis said he first thought Newsom’s claim about California’s freedoms was laughable, but then he thought more about it.

“California does have freedoms that some people don’t — that other states don’t,” he said. “You have the freedom to defecate in public in California. You have the freedom to pitch a tent on Sunset Boulevard. You have the freedom to create a homeless encampment under a freeway and even light it on fire. You have the freedom to have an open-air drug market and use drugs. You have a freedom, if you are an illegal alien, to get all these taxpayers benefits.”

“So those are freedoms,” he added. “They are not the freedoms our Founding Fathers envisioned, but they have contributed to the destruction of the quality of life in California and the results speak for themselves.”


Newsom responded by lieing and accusing DeSantis of curbing other freedoms.

“I love the rant on freedom,” the California governor said. without examples or proof. “I mean here’s a guy who’s criminalizing teachers, criminalizing doctors, criminalizing librarians, and criminalizing women that seek their reproductive care. You’re making it harder to vote. You’re banning books. I mean, spare me this notion of freedom.”