That book is banned, comrade MAGA Floridians fear ideas they find mildly threatening. Heads are not rolling yet, but it’s open season on books. At the slightest objection — outrage-addicted MAGAs are drunk on the power of it — Florida is removing books from its schools. A new measure in the Florida legislature would allow any person raising any objection to any book to disappear it as quickly as an East German neighbor turned over to Stasi. Greg Sargent writes that while the bill seems to have support from Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis, passage could backfire: “If Florida passes this bill, it may be the first state in the country to institute in every public school a rule requiring the immediate removal of materials following an objection,” Jeffrey Sachs, a political scientist who closely tracks these proposals, told me. “For activists on the right, this is a new strategy that will greatly speed the process of censoring materials.” Lawmakers wrote the provision into a bill expanding the state’s “don’t say gay” law, It expands the prohibition on classroom discussion of sex and gender from third grade up to high school. But this section, Sargent writes, mandates that books containing material deemed “sexual” or “pornographic” (in the eye of a citizen censor) be “unavailable to students until the objection is resolved.” Any resident of the county could strip books from school shelves on a whim. Or a rumor. The bill’s sponsor harbors no reservations: The bill’s chief sponsor, Republican state…