Did Disney Deliberately Throw their Suit Against Ron DeSantis… and Why?
Disney could have won their lawsuit against Ron DeSantis. Why did they choose not to?
Let’s get this out of the way: if you are a major, public-facing, corporation, the last thing you want is to be at war with the government that runs the state you’re in. No good can come of it and, at best, if the injury is really severe, you can maybe staunch some of the bleeding, but that’s about it. Winning is not in the cards in this, now, multi-year conflict between the Walt Disney Company and the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. For either side.
What started as a fairly routine corporate PR expression of distaste about a prejudicial law that will harm the company’s employees, turned into a platform for a blatantly unfit presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis. Disney seemed content to downplay the conflict with the Governor as best they could until he replaced the board of the special tax district in which Walt Disney World resides, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, with right-wing zealots — including a co-author of the law in question.
Disney took their lumps and tried to appease the increasingly radical head of Florida, until they didn’t.
