Republican presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants America to look like Florida. Apparently, he wants America to lose doctors, teachers, and immigrant laborers, then sink underwater.
Rarely are a party’s policy consequences so stark. Nevertheless, DeSantis has adopted the most extreme expressions of core conservative ideology in order to burnish his credentials ahead of his presidential run. As a result, Florida has become the case study in what happens when conservatism runs amok.