Florida Governor and GOP Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis reacted to the controversy surrounding country artist Jason Aldean’s latest music video for his song Try That In A Small Town.
In an interview with Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt, DeSantis called for the restoration of “sanity to this country.”
“We need to restore sanity to this country. I mean, what is going on? That, that would be something, that, that would be censored. I mean, give me a break,” DeSantis said.
“We’re off the rocker here in the United States with a lot of this stuff, with cancel culture, with big tech censorship, with a lot of stuff that the federal government’s doing, policing so-called misinformation. We need to get back on kilter and start having a free society again and embracing truth. So I think it’s part and parcel of a lot of the nonsense we’ve seen over the last many years,” DeSantis said.
Aldean released the audio track for Try That In A Small Town earlier this year, but the music video was put out last Friday and immediately sparked controversy. Some called the song pro-violence and lynching as the music video was shot in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee where a lynching occurred in 1927.
Aldean has denied the accusations against the song and said to him, the song represents “the feeling of a
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