Ron DeSantis actually said...

"Don’t criticize. Don’t say anything untoward. Don’t make the dear leader look bad, because, if you do, we will pull your funding, and we will pull your job, and, in the future, we may do worse."

"It’s fascism happening before our eyes."

"This war on academic freedom is not dissimilar to the war on science, the war on truth, Joy, this positively Orwellian idea that we cannot talk about what is before our eyes."

"This is an autocrat acting in the manner of an autocrat."