During the Rick Scott era, the focus of the Florida GOP was on tax cuts for business and reducing the cost of state government. Today, with Scott long gone, DeSantis and the Florida Legislature are more interested in increasing spending on popular programs and cutting gas taxes. It is an approach that is more directed at the needs of the base than business.
Is this the beginning of a shift within the GOP to a new populist economic program on a national level? I have serious doubts about that–after all, Mitch and the WSJ haven’t gone anywhere–but it bears watching.