Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) received a less than enthusiastic reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas on Friday, despite giving a speech chock-full of culture war barbs directed at the left.
“If you do speak up, boom, you’re going to be canceled. Your views, if you don’t conform with Big Tech, Fauci, or Neil Young, can be taken off Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter,” Scott began in a clip circulating social media. Scott noticeably stopped for applause but not a single clap could be heard.
“The militant left in America are a modern day version of book burners,” Scott continued, pausing and getting a light smattering of applause this time as he furrowed his brow.
“That’s right. Canceling, silencing, and banning from the Internet is book burning. These are the most narrow-minded, intolerant people our country has ever seen,” he continued, using a regular talking point on the right, and again received limited applause.
“They are completely ignorant of both world history and American history. Socialism leads to two things poverty and oppression,” he continued, adding:
Socialism is not a new idea. It’s one of the dumbest, oldest, most discrete ideas of the 20th century that resulted in the deaths of 100 million people.If these Democrats who have no idea how the real world works, are acting like they just invented socialism. The modern wacky left Democrat has never read George Orwell. They don’
t know they’re making his predictions come true.
“Let’s be clear. What the militant left is now proposing is not simply wrong. It is evil,” Scott concluded as the crowd finally gave him a solid applause.
Watch the full clip above.