DeSantis thinks that because he won big in Florida he has the secret sauce for America. I hate to tell him, but it’s a big country and Florida is a special case. This piece by Steve Schale, a Democratic operative in Florida, explains what happened there, from his perspective. It is probably somewhat self-serving and I doubt it’s the whole story but it’s a useful bit of information. There is simply no doubt that something terrible happened to Democrats in Florida. Who’s at fault is probably highly contested but I suspect there is probably something to this version of events even if the Florida Democratic Party is the most hapless in the country. He starts off by talking about his own history working on campaigns in Florida for many years. The state was a swing state that tended to go back and forth as they do. I’ll pick up the story in 2008 when Obama won: In 2008, thanks to the resources of the Obama/Biden campaign, we took those fundamentals, expanded them statewide, and built an organization. On Election Night 2008, after Florida had been called for Obama, I told the Miami Herald my hope was that the legacy of our win would be showing Democrats that we can win here. When I left the party job in 2009, I genuinely believed we were out of the ditch and on a better path. We’d built our box. We had a foundation. Things were trending in the right direction for Democrats in Florida. But right…