Ron DeSantis Martha’s Vineyard Play Is Republican Trolling

“DeSantis has all the precise individuals upset,” Laura Ingraham said on her Fox Information present Tuesday evening, thereby laying out the premise for his inevitable marketing campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. That is all it’s. That is why the Florida Governor has embraced the stunt politics of Donald Trump, the trolling aesthetic as a political platform. By no means has its triumph in Republican politics been extra obvious than with the brand new contest between RONALD and Texas Governor Greg Abbott round who will be the larger asshole to immigrants and asylum-seekers—and make the foolish liberals mad within the course of.

DeSantis is the chief within the clubhouse after flying 48 Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Winery utilizing state funds, allegedly underneath false pretenses, despite the fact that they had been warmly acquired on the tony island after they arrived. (And by no means thoughts that this incident is now the topic of at the very least one criminal investigation and the individuals used on this stunt have filed a class-action lawsuit citing RONALD by identify.) The notion that the libs may be mad that American governors are treating human beings like cattle, not that immigrants are arriving in blue states, is immaterial to the trolls. Libs mad!

And who can blame Fox Information for eating out on this, even when actuality didn’t cooperate with their imaginative and prescient of limousine liberals throwing tomatoes at individuals who simply need an opportunity at a greater life for themselves and their youngsters? What else are they supposed to speak about, the national abortion ban Republicans are pushing? Their non-existent plan to combat inflation? Their plan to remodel American infrastructure in response to the local weather disaster? (Cease chuckling within the again.) The unhappy reality is that there isn’t any Republican platform past lashing out at The Different. They can not repair immigration—with a plan which may embrace systematically relocating some individuals to blue states—as a result of they want it as a cudgel. It’s the number-one animating challenge for The Base.

RONALD has additionally adopted the speech and mannerisms of the person he hopes to displace as king of the trolls.

The repair would contain making it much less insane to come back right here legally and extra orderly when individuals arrive. (Give individuals an opportunity to simply come right here like so many generations have earlier than! Rent extra immigration judges to ease the logjam! Construct extra housing to accommodate individuals determined for an opportunity on the American Dream, together with Americans who’re already right here! You possibly can cry and wail all you need; individuals are going to maintain coming.) However as standard, the latest former president dropped all their pretenses and drastically cut legal immigration. It is about stopping These Folks from coming.

Now you could find Marco Rubio on Fox News this morning smearing the Martha’s Winery asylum-seekers as “unlawful” immigrants. They utilized to remain right here legally and are ready for his or her asylum claims to be adjudicated by an American court docket of regulation. By the best way, these are individuals who hail from a rustic, in Venezuela, that these similar Republicans contemplate a failed state with an irredeemable authorities. They sound like good candidates for the asylum program, very similar to the Cuban refugees who’ve lengthy come right here in search of a brand new likelihood at freedom and prosperity. So why the lies and the dehumanization? Here is a enjoyable sport: when was the final time you heard a Republican presidential hopeful discuss individuals coming right here seeking to work arduous and supply a greater life for his or her households? When was the final time you heard a right-wing bigwig point out something apart from criminality? Does Venezuela even have MS-13?