As I’ve noted before, what business interests want from government–even more than tax cuts and deregulation–is recognition that they are job-creating supermen who make the American economy go. In other words, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and lots of it.
DeSantis’ war on “woke capital,” and his battle with Disney in particular, flies directly in the face of that priority. DeSantis needs the support of businessmen desperately to win the nomination, but he can’t reasonably expect it if he continues to tell them that they have to shut up and play by his rules. There are, after all, other fish in the sea.