What is not in dispute, IMO, is whether a governor has a right to change the direction of a public university. That’s not in question. What is in question is when that right is abused so that a college - its students, parents, faculty, and staff - become fodder or collateral damage in a governor’s decision to run for POTUS. Good faith change in college orientation requires hiring qualified people onto boards and presidencies and then dialogue with constituencies. This is not, by a long shot, what DeSantis did or is doing. He pushed right wing provocateurs onto the board to make trouble (news). This is not about education, it’s a stunt. And students and parents and faculty and staff are being flippantly used for DeSantis’ political gain.
That’s not democracy, it’s a horrendous abuse of democratic authority.