I don’t think that it is clear that his efforts have been wasted. I don’t think that DeSantis was ever expecting this to have an immediate effect on people’s opinions. Instead, I think the idea is to prevent people in these positions from dragging the institution further toward a particular direction over time.
(To be clear, this isn’t a comment on whether these are or aren’t good policies, just on whether it constitutes progress toward DeSantis’ goals)
I don’t think that it is clear that his efforts have been wasted. I don’t think that DeSantis was ever expecting this to have an immediate effect on people’s opinions. Instead, I think the idea is to prevent people in these positions from dragging the institution further toward a particular direction over time.
(To be clear, this isn’t a comment on whether these are or aren’t good policies, just on whether it constitutes progress toward DeSantis’ goals)