DeSantis won a landslide victory in the midterms in November, securing the votes of many Latinos and working-class whites: the kind of people who are deeply opposed to the ideological capture of education by the purple-haired ideologues of the new elite. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe the views of these voters should hold more weight than the views of Disney’s clique of aloof bosses.

The second reason we should support DeSantis against Disney is because this clash might just be the start of a much-needed fightback against the woke corporate assault on democracy. We live in a world in which companies brazenly refuse to pass donations to ‘controversial’ activists like the Canadian truckers. Where corporations like PayPal openly dream of fining users thousands of pounds if they spread ‘misinformation’. Where American Express, Mastercard, Amazon and others block donations to members of the US Congress who say things they disapprove of. Where hip billionaires in Silicon Valley will expel you from the modern public square if you say men are not women. Where Ben & Jerry’s thinks nothing of dictating to elected governments what policies they should adopt. And where the likes of Disney, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and others look to punish states that pass laws they don’t like. ‘Corporate America is, once again, weighing in on politics, and Republicans aren’t happy’, crows the left, with spectacular foolishness.

This is an oligarchical onslaught against the workings of democracy. It is an attack on citizens’ fundamental rights to raise money for political campaigns, to freely associate with one another, to express their political views, and to expect that their voice will count for as much as the voice of richer people who run big businesses like Disney. GOP members who cry ‘But what about the rights of private companies?’ have failed to clock the existential nature of the battle at hand, which is between an unaccountable elite on one side and reason, democracy and the common sense of the electorate on the other. I know which side I’m on. Cry more, Disney.