Does Erika Donalds have a position on DeSantis/Diaz canceling her husband Byron?

Ask not for whom the GOP grifter cancel bell tolls, Rep. Donalds. But you might you want to ask your wife. And you cancelers might want to ask them both about Larry Wilcoxson.

I’ll be exploring this further in a future piece; but I see many signs that the multi-year TrumpSantis civic meth bender in Florida is starting to run its course. It’s not done yet; and we’ll have an unspeakable, post-bender mess to mop and disinfect when the party finally ends in rage and tears and trauma, like the Night of Seven Fishes in The Bear.

But the surest sign that a grift is starting to sour is when the grifters turn on each other.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Classical Charter Schools, Manny Diaz, Ron DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, et. al., and their multi-dimensional battle over whether Florida’s “Slavery was VoTech” smack talk disguised as a “standard” should stay in place. The fight is best summed up here. And it is hilarious.

Donalds tweeted Wednesday that the new standards are “good, robust, & accurate.” But the two-term congressman added that a new requirement for middle school students to be taught that slaves learned skills they later benefited from “is wrong & needs to be adjusted.” He added that he has “faith that (Florida Department of Education) will correct this.”

In the face of that seemingly gentle criticism, DeSantis’ administration and online allies unloaded on Donalds, who has backed former President Donald Trump over his home state governor for the 2024 nomination. Jeremy Redfern, the spokesman for the governor’s office, called Donalds a “supposed conservative.” Christina Pushaw, the campaign’s rapid response director, replied to Donalds’ tweet: “Did Kamala Harris write this tweet?” DeSantis’ Education Commissioner Manny Diaz tweeted that Florida would “not back down … at the behest of a supposedly conservative congressman.”

Only people who are really, really deep in Florida education politics, for a really long time, know how funny this is. Trust me. It’s funny.

Come on, Erika. Stand by your man.

Conspicuously quiet in all this: one Erika Donalds, wife of Byron Donalds. Erika was basically the Christina Pushaw of education in Florida before there was a Christina Pushaw of anything.

She courageously (lol) retweeted hubby’s brave (lol) criticism of “Slavery as VoTech” on Wednesday. But to my knowledge, she has since sat by silently as her buddies dismember him within the ruling grifter party. She responded to “Did Kamala Harris write this tweet?” with nothing for two days, except beating up on trans people yet again.

And then 12 minutes ago, as I’m writing this, she posted what appears to be a proof of life photo. It did not include a public position on her allies canceling her husband.

If you really want to cancel Byron Donalds, Team DeSantis, ask him and Erika about Larry Wilcoxson

I want to be clear. Every person involved in this hilarious cage match is terrible. I root only for carnage.

But if you want to stick it to Byron further, terrible people, here’s a hella dagger, complete with a “groomer” on staff.

I suspect a lot of this new grifter-on-grifter action, for which I cannot pop enough popcorn fast enough, has its roots not in nuanced arguments about the accuracy of “Slavery was VoTech,” but in the Classical Charter/GOP civil war in Collier County.

And I’ll just leave you all with this.