DeSantis and the parable of the vineyard

Published September 20, 2022 12:00am ET



What made the Left so furious when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard? It got under liberal skin more than Texas Gov. Greg Abbott dropping a couple of busloads on Vice President Kamala “The Border is Secure” Harris’s doorstep in Washington, D.C., although liberals excoriated that, too.

It can’t have been an objection in principle, for leftists defend President Joe Biden busing thousands of migrants to small Texas border towns and stranding them there. They’re cool also with him tricking illegally migrating Haitians on to planes bound for the Caribbean “s***hole” the victims haven’t lived in for years. And you hear no griping from bien pensants of the Left when Democratic mayors in Texas add to Abbott’s northward transports to New York City.

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