Ron DeSantis, the arch-conservative Republican governor of Florida, graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. Due to these elite credentials, he has long enjoyed the presumption of phoniness in the mainstream media. The far-right authoritarian politics DeSantis touts are treated almost universally in the press as evidence he's trying to win over the MAGA base rather than a direct reflection of his own fascistic worldview.
"Everything he does is about what can further his own career ambitions," one Florida activist, quoted by the Associated Press, said of DeSantis' efforts to ban all acknowledgment of LGBTQ people in public schools.
