Have woke corporations finally learned their lesson?

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Florida taught Disney a hard but necessary lesson this month when legislators revoked the company’s special privileges and tax status. That lesson is simple: Corporations do not get to stand in the way of the state’s responsibility to act in the best interests of its citizens, and if they try, there will be consequences.

This likely came as a shock to Disney and others on the Left who are used to conservatives rolling over at the first sign of corporate pressure. But Gov. Ron DeSantis wanted to make a few things clear: the first being that, in the culture war, offense is the best defense. And second, that wokeism has a price.

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