I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/opinion/james-fishback-gen-z-republican-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.UQla.Sg9KUlvLvmAC&smid=nytcore-ios-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Michelle Goldberg
March 12, 2026

Slight and bespectacled, Fishback has a geeky charisma and the verbal dexterity of a former competitive high school debater. His policies are a mishmash of extreme conservatism and economic progressivism; nationalism tinged with socialism, if you will. He believes that #Florida’s gun laws are too strict, its abortion laws too lax and its public teacher pay too low. He’s called for a 50 percent sin tax on OnlyFans creators and $10,000 grants to high-performing high school graduates to buy homes or start businesses. Though he’s the son of an immigrant — his mother is Colombian — he wants a total #immigration moratorium.

Most of all, #Fishback has made contempt for #Israel and its American lobby a centerpiece of his campaign...

#FarRight #fascist #news #politics #USpol #JamesFishback

When you're financially strapped and out of options, what do you do? You run for office as a Republican!

Florida Republican 'hero' candidate gets his couch repossessed: report
https://www.alternet.org/republican-party-racism-maga/

#JamesFishback #NoMoreRepublicansEver #Florida #USPol

Florida Republican candidate on the Western Wall: 'Stupid wall'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/02/09/florida-republican-candidate-western-wall-stupid-controversy/

WTF??
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Via #RawStory - Jan 30, 2026

Red state gov candidate claims #DonLemon 'lucky' he wasn't lynched

#Journalist Don Lemon's arrest & indictment by the #Trump admin promoted howls of #outrage from press figures around the country on Friday — but as far as #Florida gubernatorial candidate #JamesFishback is concerned, he could have been lynched instead.

"Don Lemon is lucky he's not getting hanged in the public square for ransacking a church," Fishback posted

https://www.rawstory.com/don-lemon-2675064237/

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Netanyahu's real Republican problem is not Trump

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/28/netanyahus-real-republican-problem-is-not-trump/