Liberal commentators continue to lambast DeSantis and Abbott, both calculating Angry White People Party governors, for their "cruelty" in shipping migrants asking for asylum to progressive areas of the country.
Ironically, many of the actual migrants finding themselves in far-off places seem thankful for the unrequested "cruelty." After all, progressive states often are ready to respond with kindness, shelter, food, and even employment... and the migrants got a free bus (or plane) ride.
Of course, the governors did not intend their practice of spending millions to ship immigrants to other states to be any sort of charity. They wanted to make those despised liberals uncomfortable and score political points with their most rabid supporters. Maybe they accomplished those things.
But the law of unintended consequences seems to be at work here. After all, the tax dollars of the citizens of Texas and Florida paid for the transportation, and I would guess that many of those immigrants find themselves in a more supportive area with opportunities for them and their families.
That has got to bug some of our more racist fellow citizens.
There is no doubt that states along our southern borders are more directly affected by more and more poor, desperate people looking for a better life. The federal government spends a lot of money to provide services for those folks, of course, but many champions of personal liberty and "taking care of themselves" happily accept all sorts of federal support.
They are hypocrites, of course, but that is hardly new in politics.
It's just nice to see those provocations blow up in their faces, at least for some of us.
In a related bit of news, surveys show that Trump supporters have not dropped their support for the embattled and horrifying former president, no matter how many law suits and embarrassments he and his family suffer.
It's tough to get people out of a cult.
And those liberal commentators moaning about all the cruelty may be missing the point.
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