The Facebook post from last Saturday is comedy gold. A man in a DeSantis 2020 hat topped with a mouse-ear headband poses in front of a few cars with their hoods up. The caption: “Patriot Convoy just did a BLOCKADE @ the Entrance of Disney. Car Trouble. No one visiting Disney can get in.”
A few people took the man seriously, scolding him for spoiling family vacations. Others realized, almost immediately, that the “blockade” was on a back-property access road near the Disney Springs shopping complex. A few miles away, folks were getting in and out of Disney theme parks just fine. The man, and the small group of people he convinced to follow him, looked silly. The gajillion-dollar corporation they were trying to harass looked oblivious.
That vignette might have been a little preview of the ridiculous exhibition Gov. Ron DeSantis himself led a few days later. With no advance notice, DeSantis demanded that lawmakers punish Disney for its tepid criticism of a hateful bill aimed at banning discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in Florida classrooms (also, for Disney’s threat to cut off campaign contributions).
