{"id":1917152,"date":"2023-04-20T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anyone-claiming-disney-outmaneuvered-desantis-is-moving-goalposts\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:27:00","slug":"anyone-claiming-disney-outmaneuvered-desantis-is-moving-goalposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anyone-claiming-disney-outmaneuvered-desantis-is-moving-goalposts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Claiming Disney \u2018Outmaneuvered\u2019 DeSantis Is Moving Goalposts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanyone-claiming-disney-outmaneuvered-desantis-is-moving-goalposts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917152&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/04\/18\/desantis-disney-trump-2024-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the right<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2023-03-30\/disneys-lawyers-outmaneuvered-desantis-control-disney-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left<\/a> have claimed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 conflict with Disney has been a failed PR stunt. This view requires one to ignore critical context, facts, and the evolution of the dispute. An honest account of events requires one to concede DeSantis\u2019 battle with Disney has been an unabashed victory for the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>A little over a year ago, Florida passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/1557\/BillText\/er\/PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parental<\/a> rights law that forbade teachers from discussing sexuality with children in third grade and below. The bill also required parents to be made aware of any significant developments with their children regardless of grade level. This law upset the LGBT lobby, which falsely labeled the law as a \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill despite there being no mention of homosexuality in the text. Predictively, major media platforms co-opted the label in an attempt to paint conservatives as homophobes for refusing to use public schools to secretly \u201ctrans the kids\u201d  without parental consent and teach kindergarteners about sex.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney CEO at the time, Bob Chapek, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/03\/disney-bob-chapek-dont-say-gay-florida-1234974584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caved<\/a> to a small but vocal group of Disney employees that took issue with parental rights in education bill and vowed to use the full weight of the company to overturn the law and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/disney-pledges-to-stop-florida-campaign-donations-dont-say-gay-00016705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deny support<\/a> for Florida Republicans in the future. For those unfamiliar with Florida politics, this represented an unprecedented move for the company that has a history of getting along with Florida Republicans and also getting <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/04\/desantis-disney-florida-legislature.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whatever it wanted<\/a> from the legislature. An accurate timeline of events makes it undeniable; Disney fired the first shots. Florida conservatives weren\u2019t arbitrarily targeting Disney for a culture war.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next is critical for understanding the Disney versus DeSantis feud.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis and Florida Republicans responded by stripping (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/politics\/2022\/04\/20\/florida-senate-approves-terminating-disneys-reedy-creek-improvement-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">albeit temporarily<\/a>) Disney\u2019s self-governing authority within its special tax district. The public feud caused Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/may\/25\/disney-brand-takes-hit-corporate-survey-after-feud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reputation to sink<\/a> with the general public, the CEO responsible for injecting the company into local politics <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/disney-fires-ceo-bob-chapek-131235505.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGiFA9Bru6VZ9X26fUAe8uxNq5fj3uamZDeU1uvRTZjajyDYRdCquhwpWTVYTwvicXpUMJEYyqhcZt62Yo0-78rm9TSN1lrtIhAesJAhGJHt7o1SOEQMstr-3nROJGp2NjjCGjcDPb1F0PlJsfD0nvvNHsyoD-OWjGYYyQf2GKEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was fired<\/a>, and Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/11\/25\/nolte-disneys-big-gay-green-strange-world-crashes-at-box-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woke movies tanked<\/a>. To put the cherry on top, in his return to the helm CEO Bob Iger pledged to get the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-tells-employees-wants-quiet-culture-wars-respect-audience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out of politics<\/a> (the entire reason for the dispute) and is still getting an <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2023\/04\/bob-iger-was-grilled-on-disneys-place-in-politics-at-shareholder-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earful from shareholders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/disney-stock-on-its-way-to-worst-year-since-1974-after-avatar-sequel-disappoints-11671504795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stock sank<\/a>, DeSantis was reelected by the largest margin seen in over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/vote-2022\/2022\/11\/09\/analyzing-the-data-desantis-wins-by-largest-margin-of-any-fla-governor-in-40-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40 years<\/a>, with stunning victories in Democratic strongholds like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/massive-desantis-rubio-wins-have-florida-and-miami-dade-seeing-red\/2904788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miami-Dade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2022-election\/results\/florida\/statewide-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tampa<\/a>. Republicans gained seats, now having a supermajority in both chambers, and for the first time since the Civil War, no Democrats are holding statewide elected office in Florida. For those unfamiliar with American elections, this is huge regardless of state. Republicans (especially conservatives) seldom win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/republicans-cities-elections-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire metro areas<\/a>, especially ones as big and ethnically diverse as Miami. Furthermore, Florida Republicans have used this new power to expand the parental rights law to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/desantis-administration-eyes-extending-floridas-parental-rights-law-grades-k-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all grades<\/a> and deliver on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/florida-republicans-quickly-pass-conservative-pleasing-bills-pushed-by-desantis\/7B5QWZAANNBH3HKRW6TVDBDEL4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other major conservative priorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To pretend DeSantis was defeated or outmaneuvered by Disney requires an epic shifting of the goalposts. The objective was never about destroying Disney. That would be stupid. It\u2019s a major employer and economic driver of Florida tourism. Likewise, Disney\u2019s special tax district was always an issue of leverage to get the desired outcome of Disney backing off its plan to inject its left-wing ideals into Florida schools and law. <\/p>\n<p>If one understands this dispute is centered on parental rights and education, not a municipal tax district, it\u2019s dishonest to claim this was anything less than an astounding victory for DeSantis and Florida conservatives. This is true regardless of what happens with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/04\/03\/desantis-investigation-disney-world-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disney\u2019s tax district<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Raheem Williams is a policy analyst at the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). He has worked for several liberty-based academic research centers and think tanks. He received his B.A. in economics from Florida International University and his M.A. in financial economics from the University of Detroit Mercy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some on the right and left have claimed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 conflict with Disney has been a failed PR stunt. This view requires one to ignore critical context, facts, and the evolution of the dispute. An honest account of events requires one to concede DeSantis\u2019 battle with Disney has been an unabashed victory for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1184,"featured_media":1917153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[24738,10035,4980,6344,24739,5155],"class_list":["post-1917152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-outmaneuvered","tag-claiming","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-goalposts","tag-moving"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}