It isn't Hitler shit, it's George Wallace shit. Populist governors get all book-burny every 20 years or so. The basic problem for conservatives, however, is that the culture is always progressive so what happens is old cranky white assholes remind everyone what cranky white assholes they are and as soon as the moment has passed, everyone conveniently disregards the lather they were in and then aligns with whatever the cultural center is (which has been dragged leftward by those pesky liberals). You've seen this with vaccines - at the heat of COVID everybody had an opinion but now that there's a fairly commonplace baseline of "vax, don't vax, doesn't matter, COVID isn't really killing anyone but old people anymore" the consensus view is "jesus let it go."

Normal people can have passion about wedge issues for just long enough to make up their minds and move on. We did this shit with the PMRC, we did this shit with Dungeons and Dragons, we did this shit with comics. Politicians will always outline some cultural "transgression" that they aren't a part of and declare it to be a satanic plot to warp the minds of future voters from becoming Republicans, the crisis will peak in some truly ridiculous fashion and errbody will forget. That's on a national level. On a state or local level that shit needs to be tempered by annoying things like balanced budgets. That's why nobody says anything about Bobby Jindal anymore - not because he screwed up a speech but because he screwed up Louisiana.

Florida is gonna be an interesting place for the next while. For one, Latinos and Hispanics are starting to lean Republican. For another, GenZ is outvoting the over-65s. For another, the Pandemic juggled a lot of living situations and anecdotally, I know way too many people who decided that retiring to Florida was a good idea. For another,

I mean, we're talking about a Florida governor who picked a fight with Disney. He's got the long game of a golden retriever. Will he make things more awful than they already are? Indubitably. But I mean... at this state of the game in the 2012 presidential race, the leading contender was Rick Santorum.

I think DeSantis is playing culture war games because that's the only thing the Right has right now. I think the climate will be very different after a year of the Republican-led congress amply doing nothing. The College Board jumping on this shit does nothing except diminish the influence of the College Board... and they're the incredible shrinking test agency already.