At a number of occasions, Mr. DeSantis, a navy veteran, appeared to borrow from Winston Churchill’s well-known “We will struggle on the seashores” speech, given to exhort the residents of Britain of their existential battle in opposition to Nazi Germany.
“We are going to struggle the woke in training,” Mr. DeSantis mentioned in New Hampshire. “We are going to struggle the woke in companies. And we are going to struggle the woke within the halls of Congress. We are going to by no means give up to the woke mob.”
(Mr. Trump appeared to take a shot at his rival’s use of the phrase, saying on Thursday, “I don’t just like the time period ‘woke,’ as a result of I hear ‘woke, woke, woke.’” He added: “It’s only a time period they use. Half the individuals can’t even outline it. They don’t know what it’s.”)
Earlier, at his kickoff rally outdoors Des Moines on Tuesday evening, Mr. DeSantis appeared to place the varied constructing blocks of his stump speech collectively right into a coherent imaginative and prescient, one which portrayed the USA as a nation being assaulted from the within by unseen liberal forces bent on reshaping each facet of American life.
“They’re imposing their agenda on us, by way of the federal authorities, by way of company America, by way of our personal training system,” he mentioned. “All for his or her profit and all to our detriment.”