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The propaganda war continues with Florida’s “Donald J. Trump Highway”

The naming proposal by the Florida GOP is an attempt to sew sedition into the fabric of the American landscape

Oh, Florida. Your lunacy just never ends. As the state now leads the Delta uptick in the U.S., hitting an all-time high of coronavirus cases this week, Republican State representative Anthony Sabatini has filed a bill to re-name Florida’s longest road, U.S. Highway 27, which runs from Tallahassee to Miami, the “President Donald J. Trump Highway.” Sabatini celebrated the submission on Twitter, calling the former guy “one of America’s greatest presidents.” It seems Florida is now not only the epicenter of the virus, but it is the latest theater in The Great Story War — the ongoing battle over the “story” of January 6 and over how exactly Donald Trump will go down in American history.

Of course, naming roads — or highways, bridges, and the like — after presidents is not an unusual act here in America. What immediately comes to mind is the President Barack H. Obama Highway near Los Angeles. Miles away in SoCal is the Ronald Reagan Freeway in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. George Bush (daddy not son) has a turnpike named after him, which forms a partial loop around Dallas. And…