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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end a wildly successful half-century experiment in municipal governance. ---- Once upon a time, a man named Walt wanted to build a city—nay, a kingdom—in Florida swampland. In 1964, the Disney company began secretly purchasing 27,400 acres in small parcels and stitching them together to form a landmass roughly the size of Manhattan. Walt Disney wanted plenty of space to keep the type of tacky tourist shops that encircled Disneyland—plopped in the middle of Anaheim, California—from encroaching on his new kingdom. “There's enough land here [in Central Florida] to hold all the ideas and plans we could possibly imagine,“ Disney said in a filmed presentation that was aired for local lawmakers as part of a bid to convince them that his extraordinary dream required extraordinary powers: Total control over the land so that politics couldn't interfere with Di
