There's always been a lot of liberal fear of DeSantis. He is a monster and an awful human being, but as it turns out he's nothing more than a black hole of charisma.
"If the great promise of the DeSantis candidacy was Trump without the baggage, Stuart Stevens, a top strategist on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, said that what Republicans got instead was 'Ted Cruz without the personality.'”