Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s new memoir “The Courage to be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for American Revival” will be released tomorrow. Within it is a fascinating revelation about the fight between himself and Disney over the parental rights legislation passed by Florida Republicans that Disney and Democrats had falsely claimed was a “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

According to Fox News, DeSantis’s memoir reveals the Florida Governor got a phone call from then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek to officially urge him not to sign the “Parental Rights in Education” bill.

“I called Gov. DeSantis this morning to express our disappointment and concern that if the legislation becomes law, it could be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, non-binary, and transgender kids and families,” Chapek said at the time.

Unofficially, Chapek revealed to DeSantis that he would rather not have this confrontation at all and that he was receiving pressure from both within his company and from Democrats to take up this fight. DeSantis said Chapek admitted that he’d never experienced this kind of pressure before:

“As the controversy over the Parental Rights in Education bill was coming to a head, Chapek called me. He did not want Disney to get involved, but he was getting a lot of pressure to weigh in against the bill,” DeSantis writes.

“We get pressured all the time,” Chapek told DeSantis, according to the governor’s book. “But this time is different. I haven’t seen anything like this before.”

DeSantis attempted to put Chapek at ease by reassuring him that the outrage he would suffer as a result of not getting the company involved would be short-lived.

The Florida governor said if Disney stayed out of the politics, Disney would face 48 hours of outrage when the bill passed. “[And] when I sign it, you will get another 48 hours of outrage, mostly online,'” DeSantis said, adding, “Then there will be some new outrage that the woke mob will focus on and people will forget about this issue, especially considering the outrage is directed at a political-media narrative, not the actual text of the legislation itself.”

Chapek caved to the left and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Writing of his decision to come down on Disney, DeSantis recalled that his decision to go after the magic kingdom’s tax haven was a strike he committed as a father of three.

“While the Walt Disney Company and its executives had a right to indulge in woke activism, Florida did not have to place the company on a pedestal while they do so—especially when the company’s activism impacted the rights of parents and the well-being of children,” wrote DeSantis.

The short-lived battle between Disney and DeSantis taught lessons to various camps. For DeSantis, he realized that when it comes to fighting political radicalism, “old-guard corporate Republicanism is not up to the task at hand.”

For current Disney CEO Bob Iger, it was a reminder that getting involved in controversies is bad for business and paints a negative view of the company.

Both men are correct, and while Disney will be licking its wounds for some time, DeSantis will continue to be celebrated as the man who successfully battled a woke corporation and won handily.