On the menu today: Republicans in Texas and Ohio consider following in Florida’s footsteps on keeping controversial sexual topics out of children’s classrooms and what Elon Musk might do now that he’s Twitter’s largest shareholder.

Conservative States Consider Copying Florida

In Ohio, Republicans have introduced legislation similar to Florida’s recently enacted law prohibiting teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with children in kindergarten through third grade. In Texas, Republican lieutenant governor Dan Patrick has suggested that it would behoove his state to consider a similar law in the next legislative session. By one accounting, there are about a dozen states that have considered legislation like this. Florida’s is the only one that has made it into law.

This controversy could well fizzle out, but right now it feels like the debate is growing into the next major skirmish in the endless culture war. Advocates on the left seem to think they’ve finally landed on an issue that can distract the public from the ongoing abysmal failures of the Biden administration and the Democratic Congress, from rising inflation and high gas prices. The only problem for them is that this issue doesn’t seem to be a winning one at all.

The biggest poll to date on Florida’s law found that not only do almost two-thirds of Americans support the law once they’ve read the text, but that that support holds strong across nearly all major demographic groups. A majority of Democrats supports the law. A majority of Biden voters supports it. Sixty percent of suburban voters support it. More than 60 percent of respondents who said they “know someone LGBTQ” support it.