The governor who has used the state apparatus to punish Disney over its right to free speech and try to shut down local businesses for hosting drag shows wants Americans to think he will stop the “weaponization” of the federal government. Ron DeSantis’ shtick about “slitting throats” of “deep state” federal bureaucrats is a tired trope he’s repeated several times to survive as a Republican presidential candidate. DeSantis has— in the name of fighting “woke” culture — injected divisive politics into virtually every corner of state government, he has exerted big-government control over what teachers and professors can say about race in the classroom and what private businesses can include in their diversity training. Yet he wants to persuade Republican voters he’s their last hope against an all-too-powerful state #Queer Up Politics