If DeSantis and Republicans somehow prevail, and these laws are deemed constitutional by courts, DeSantis will be the culture war gladiator who delivered victories for his adoring crowd.
If, however, courts nix the laws or force Florida back to the drawing board, the governor is more than capable of turning that to his advantage, too.
If the “instruction” law is outright struck down and quickly, DeSantis is less likely to wind up being plausibly blamed for LGBTQ+ kids’ suicides, which some predict the law remaining on the books will spark en masse. Avoiding that is obviously good for him. A bonus, however, will be that DeSantis will be free to rail against “judicial activism,” “the liberal elite,” and just about anyone else not culturally aligned with his base and who opposed him on the law (presumably, the “liberal elite” will also include those of us not on the left, but who simply found ourselves repeatedly headdesking while reading the thing because the legal drafting is just so bad).
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