The origin story for a lot of the current Discourse is a bunch of dipshit centrists being enraged that they were asked to wear masks in a pandemic.
That is how many of them became DeSantis-curious. They didn't care how many people his policies killled, or even that he's basically into vax denialism.
That, college students not thinking they are cool, and trans people and other "inferiors" calling them shitheads on twitter boiled all their brains.