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I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.

I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Clementary attorney and defender of freedom,

Jay Carson. Hey, Mike. Hey, Jay. So I'm looking forward to getting some culture war stuff with you.

And as always, Ron DeSantis can be counted on to provide some good culture war

discussion, right? Although he hasn't quite announced his campaign for the presidency pretty

clearly. He will be a candidate at some point soon, and he's banking heavily, I think, on some of this

culture war stuff. And for instance, he recently signed into law legislation that curtailed

Disney's ability to self-govern in the Reedy Creek Improvement District. That's that special

purpose district created in 1967 that allows Disney to essentially self-govern its roughly 25,000

acres of property in Florida.

And in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, DeSantis calls this district an indefensible example of

corporate welfare, but really the bulk of the article focused on what DeSantis calls

the woke ascendancy in which publicly traded corporations have become combatants

in battles over American politics and culture, almost invariably siding with leftist

causes. And DeSantis argues that in his words, in this environment, old guard corporate

republicanism isn't up to the task at hand and that if corporations are going to

use their economic power to advance a woke agenda, their political actors and allowing the

free market to basically do its thing is in essence seating the field to the woke left and that

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