It's important to understand how tptb perceive the different political groups, their perception of the maga crowd is that the maga crowd are just childish bullies, so when it comes to puppets like desantis the plan is to have them do stunts to "tOtAlLy oWn tEh LiBz" as means of getting maga support, when someone is super cocky and does little stunts and the overall reaction from maga is HAHA TAKE THAT LIBTARDS best look behind the curtains, this is also exactly the playbook with both Trump and Musk btw