Last year, DeSantis gave Fox News “exclusive” coverage of a signing ceremony for a restrictive voting law that limited access to mail-in voting. Even Fox News thought this was strange. Network executives said they thought they booked DeSantis on Fox “as an interview and not as a live bill signing.”

DeSantis has said Florida won’t have an Arizona-style audit of its 2020 election, but that’s not really written in stone. The Florida Legislature may pass a bill to audit the 2020 election, and it’s hard to imagine DeSantis vetoing such legislation, given how invested he is in taking cues from Trump.

How deep is DeSantis into Trump’s MAGA culture? He’s signing an anti-vaccine mandate bill in Brandon, a fratty wink to the people who like to chant “Let’s Go Brandon” as a nod to a vulgar chant targeting President Biden. Other pieces of DeSantis legislation include bills to prohibit social media companies from banning Trump, a post-Black Lives Matter protests “anti-rioting” bill to give civil immunity to people who hit protesters with their vehicles, and legislation to dictate how race is discussed in the classroom.

None of these proposals are about policy, or even advancing conservative principles. They’re little more than government by meme.