imagine that you’re chilling at home after a hard day at work. out of the clear blue, there’s a knock at the front door.

it’s not just any knock. it’s one of those knocks — a little too loud, a little too insistent. your pulse quickens as you cross the room — and sure enough, when you open the door, standing before you is an officer of the law.

he holds up a copy of your driver’s license. is this you? he waves a document in your face. did you sign this? what the fuck is going on? is this Nazi Germany?
no, it’s Fascist Florida.

Isaac Menasche remembers being at the Cape Coral farmer’s market last year when someone asked him if he’d sign a petition to get Florida’s abortion amendment on the ballot.

He said yes — and he told a law enforcement officer as much when one showed up at the door of his Lee County home earlier this week.

Menasche said he was surprised when the plainclothes officer twice asked if it was really Menasche who had signed the petition. The officer said he was looking into potential petition fraud.

Though the officer was professional and courteous, Menasche, who has had little interaction with police in his life, said the encounter left him shaken.

.... welcome to life in Ron DeSantis’s Fascist Florida. Florida Republicans, you see, have a bit of a problem: abortion is on the ballot this November.