Woke Disney Whacks DeSantis With A Mickey Mouse Club*

R.VanWagoner
10 min readMay 21, 2023
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

Disney wasn’t bluffing. It will say “gay.” As its feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis heats up, Disney scuttled its $1 billion+ campus that would have brought more than 2,000 jobs to Florida with an average annual salary of $120,000. Disney, a company that employs over 75,000 people in Central Florida, is opting for a business-friendlier state to build its campus, one that welcomes a broad range of people and ideas, a safe environment with leadership that doesn’t retaliate against those whose vocalized viewpoints on policy differ from the governor’s, or against challenges that get under his very thin skin. Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida.

DeSantis is just fine costing his state billions to wage his culture war: he wants to be president. For more than a decade, maybe a lifetime, Florida’s second most prominent bully has been preparing himself, and his brand, for a presidential bid. Any serious contender for president must publish a book in the lead up. DeSantis’s latest tome, The Courage to Be Free, Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival, is an anti-woke manifesto, appealing to grievance voters — which include those who vote against their interests to own the libs — while “trying his best to tiptoe around the Trump dragon.” Its clichéd title is defied by DeSantis’s despotic reign of terror against women, the LGBTQ+…

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R.VanWagoner

Exercising my right not to remain silent. Criminal defense and First Amendment attorney.