Ron DeSantis’ war with Disney is escalating. The company sued the Florida governor in federal court this week and said his crusade against its special status in the state is politically motivated and a violation of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, DeSantis’ Republican colleagues in the state are openly questioning his strategy in the press, saying Disney is “playing the long game” and appears to have the upper hand, for better or for worse. This all feels familiar to Mark I. Pinsky, a former Orlando Sentinel reporter who, back in the 1990s, extensively covered Disney’s last skirmish in a conservative-led culture...