Mr. De Santis and Mr. Abbot, governors of two of the more barbarous states in America, have resorted to the old-time dictator’s tool of forced migration. Their supporters in the voting population have been tricked into believing that immigrants are a threat to their supposed way of life and so are expected to be gratified by the governors’ tyranny. Antisemitism, racial fear and hatred, anti-Catholicism, and anti-feminism are the oldest devices in the G.O.P.’s bag of deceptions, xenophobia and anti-feminism being now the ones most in favor. 

De Santis and Abbot seem to think that their inhuman treatment of the immigrants is a good old boys’, haw! haw! haw!, owning the liberals, stunt. Their treatment of the immigrants is simply nazi-esque, with substitution of air liners for cattle cars. But I think that maybe, in the end, Il Duce De Santis and Oberstürmfuhrer Abbot may have done the immigrants a favor by getting them out of the political and moral abysses over which these two monsters rule.