Opinion: What history reveals about the DeSantis playbook | CNN

Nicole Hemmer: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a clear strategy for building support for his presidential bid.

She says he has used his power as governor to translate provocation into policy with alarming speed.

In pursuit of these so-called culture wars, he has vastly expanded the power of the executive in Florida, she says.

Hemmer says the governor's seat is now a perch to prove you can manipulate all the levers of power to feed the party’s base.

The 1990s witnessed history wars, with battles over what versions of the nation’s past were taught in classrooms and displayed in museums.

It popularized “political correctness” as a way to dismiss concerns over language and representation.

It gave rise to a new nativism that sought to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing social goods like public education.