moresugar: DeSantis also made waves as a history teacher. His counter-factual views on the Civil War were so notorious that students made a clip for the school's video yearbook mocking them. In the clip, a student imitating DeSantis says, "The Civil War was not about slavery! It was about two competing economic systems."
"In history class, he was trying to play devil's advocate that the South had good reason to fight that war, to kill other people, over owning people - Black people," Danielle Pompey, a 2003 graduate, said.

I get that.  When I taught American history I liked to challenge the students' assumptions in order to make them think critically about historical topics.  I may have even challenged them to reevaluate their assumptions about the cause of the Civil War.  But I guarantee that, at the end of the class, every one of my students knew exactly where I and the overwhelming majority of historians stood on the question: it was slavery.  In contrast, if the only thing that students remember about their high school history teacher is that he was always saying "the Civil War was not about slavery!" I'm reasonably confident that he was not presenting that position as some sort of "devil's advocate."

Also, I never had any desire to party with my students, even though they were college students, not high schoolers.  People that age are icky - why would any adult want to party with them?