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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://newrepublic.com/article/167755/desantis-marthas-vineyard-trolling-immigrants

[quote]Over the last five years, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has learned one lesson better than any other national Republican: If you want to go far in the Republican Party, you should emulate Donald Trump in every way possible. He’s pulled out all the stops: His home has been converted into an ersatz shrine to the former president; he’s directed his infant children to “build the wall” out of cardboard bricks and say, “Make America Great Again” in a campaign ad. He has even started talking with a quasi-Trumpian cadence and standing in that weird way where his arms are held awkwardly away from the body—a posture that makes him look a bit like an out-of-shape action figure.

But one of DeSantis’s achievements in his study of the Trumpian arts stands out above the rest. The Florida governor has, perhaps better than anyone in the contemporary GOP, mastered Trump’s main innovation: shitposting as policymaking. He has wrangled with Disney, one of his state’s most important employers, over made-up culture-war beefs about inclusivity and “wokeness.” On Thursday, he arguably took things further than ever, by flying dozens of asylum-seeking migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

[b]There is no actual point to DeSantis’s actions beyond weaponizing his own petulance—and the fervent hope that somewhere, even if it’s just online, some libs will be triggered. It’s a policy that accomplishes nothing beyond doing a grave indecency to some needful human beings for the sake of a live-action troll job.[/b]

And it was [b]a classic Trump move: pointless, cruel, designed only to provoke.[/b] Trump’s border wall—still his signature policy—remains the quintessential policy position of the contemporary Republican Party. It is, first and foremost, a troll. It does little, if nothing, to reduce undocumented immigration. It is a metaphor more than a policy, flaunting what purports to be the simple solution to an incredibly complex issue.[/quote]

Why is US in this precarious point where one major party out of two has given up governance and resorted to "trolling the libs" as its only policy? Where do we go from here. Is US going to die as a country from here onward? Will we be Germany of the past or USSR?[/quote]

It would have blown up in his face if they had welcomed and housed these people instead of freaking out, declaring an emergency and getting rid of them as soon as they could, like yesterday’s trash.

That would have sent a message and made DeSantis look foolish.[/quote]

They welcomed the people, fed them and got them to a place where they can actually be helped, rather than a sparsely populated resort island. The only people freaking out are on right wing media. Everyone else has moved on.[/quote]

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