I'd like to throw this out there too using my political strategist hat... First off, watching the legislature capitulate to the governor is a horror show and an exercise in spinelessness. We have a soft moderate style of governance in this state in terms of the governor's office with a strong legislature. The legislature has given up their significant power over the past few years because they're afraid of the mob. They watch their own party's governor ridicule them and strip projects away from them.... but I expect to see the tide turn...
I'll say it and bet nearly everything on it that DeSantis will not the the nominee on the Republican side and once we get over that hump, this guy becomes a target from within his own caucus. DeSantis will be a lame duck (not able to run for re-election) and I fully expect legislators to start taking their power back. The days of rubber stamping will come to a close in terms of what he wants. I've been around countless state legislators and federal ones... At the end of the day, once you're a lame duck, forget about it.
In the meantime, he'll continue to become even more outlandish, extreme, and undemocratic in his actions. It's really something to see a Republican turn the government into the ultimate big brother from one's personal lives to using the state against private corporations. What a mess. And a side-note, for those looking for the opposition party to crawl out of its state of disaster, it's not happening any time soon. Folks that I know who are top Democratic strategists and players have no interest in playing ball here. Until the state party isn't a dumpster fire, not much will change. And that dumpster fire has been burning strong for nearly two decades.
