Presumably because the governor doesn’t believe in forcing 5 year olds to wear N95 masks for eight hours, eliminating meritocracy in schools, and teaching divisive r/acial rhetoric to elementary students:
https://twitter.com/mediaite/status/1486357984078872577?s=21
The media wants people to believe that limited government is ‘communism or fascism’ and that the administrative state is ‘freedom and liberty’.
They are doing this with socialism too (e.g. that B ‘isn’t a socialist’, even though his domestic agenda is to significantly boost government control of resources).