evidence: Newsom, DeSantis both claim ‘freedom’ as election mandates [...] But both men define "freedom" in vastly different ways. For Newsom, freedom means the right to say yes: To an abortion, to government-funded health care for immigrants, to gender-affirming care for children. For DeSantis, freedom means the right to say no: To COVID vaccines, to illegal immigration, to what he calls "indoctrination" on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. [...] DeSantis, meanwhile, signed a law to let workers opt out of their employers’ COVID vaccine mandates. He banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He enacted a measure that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools up to third grade, a rule critics dubbed the "don’t say gay" law. And he poked his rivals by using public money to bus immigrants living in the country illegally from Florida to Democratic-led states.