DeSantis’s attacks on Disney backfire

The Florida governor has acted with personal vindictiveness and abuse of official authority

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May 1, 2023 - 2:33 PM

Weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the Disney Corporation for being woke, protesters gathered outside Disney World in Orlando waving Nazi flags as families with children were entering the park. (Allie Goulding/Tampa Bay Times/TNS)

Ron DeSantis has messed with the wrong mouse. Disney’s announcement that it is suing the Florida governor for his bizarre harassment campaign against the company over policy criticism touches on several important issues — freedom of speech, abuse of official power, free-market independence — all of which should helpfully spotlight just how unfit for the presidency the Florida governor has shown himself to be.

The feud started last year when Disney World’s corporate owners, pressured by its enormous workforce of young people, publicly criticized the “don’t say gay”…

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