To my mind, DeSantis is the more dangerous of the two. Having watched his actions as governor in my home state of Florida over the last four years, he has become progressively more heavy-handed and autocratic. At the height of the pandemic, he was trying to remove mask mandates everywhere in public. His defiance of the CDC resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Floridians who did not need to die had he been more reasonable. He prohibited local schools from requiring masks of their students and teachers. Those who bucked him were threatened with having their state money for education taken away. When the elected state attorney in Orlando said she would not seek the death penalty in murder cases, he had her removed. He did the same thing to the Hillsborough state attorney when he said he would not prosecute women for seeking abortions outside of the state mandates. These were duly elected local officials not under his control. He used an ambiguous state statute allowing him to remove public officials for malfeasance as his justification. The law was never intended to be a political tool. He tried to eliminate Disney World’s special taxation district over their objections to the “Don’t say gay” bill. He threatened cruise lines when they required masks of their customers when they began sailing again. He has taken state Medicaid away from gender affirming mental health therapy for trans children. It goes on and on. Anytime his will is challenged or local governments refuse to follow his extreme mandates, he steps in and tries to bend them to his will by executive fiat. He cares nothing for democracy, only for having his extreme agenda imposed unilaterally without dissent. Imagine what he would be like if he were president and had the executive pen to wreak havoc with.