This week, a tide shifted in Big Media. Ron DeSantis recently pulled off a major coup by exposing the inexhaustible and profound hypocrisy of the progressive establishment as he sent a planeload of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a place more personal to certain progressive Democrats than even Washington DC. The stunt might be up there with the Boston Tea Party for iconic history. It demonstrates an axiom that the Republicans need a lot more of: ‘Do unto others as others have done unto you’, particularly when progressive policy followers dump hundreds of thousands of migrants into your state. But more so than a simple tit-for-tat, the staid Puritans of the Bay Colony have been keenly humiliated, on camera, in front of a national audience. The leverage is intense.
There is an unspoken and naïve contemporary notion that the root of all evil is Donald Trump and that if only he were locked in prison and run into humiliation and oblivion, all our domestic and governmental woes would magically go away and there would be blissful peace in the land. Trump is the fatal obsession of Biden, the entire progressive Reich, and of the neocon establishment. Whole media networks are nothing but wall-to-wall Trump hate. And then, along comes Ron DeSantis.
There are two primary interpretations for the shift and alarm sounded when DeSantis sent a small group on their merry trip north. We could look at it as a [badly fitted] mask of deception falling from the face of the haters. Why, the progressive regime was ready to pounce on someone else all along! Donald Trump was nothing but their hate de jour after all. We thought they thought he alone was Satan, but maybe their hate is a lot more fluid when it comes down to it. On the other hand, there’s a small chance that maybe they picked up their cellphone and saw the breaking news and said a little ‘oh-shit’ under their breath. It’s not like they really have compassion for their own, the occupied wokey natives of Martha’s Vineyard. They do, however, recognize audacity when they see it. Maybe they believed that only Donald Trump had the gonads to humiliate their tribe on their own soil. Maybe Ron DeSantis really is a revelation to them.
In the last week we see Ron DeSantis starting to be as vilified as much as Trump. I’m sure they’re also double alarmed that he doesn’t have Trump’s baggage. That’s the stuff of nightmares for the heretofore Trump-hating crowd. All I can say is: ‘Stare into the telescope maties because that’s the future you see coming in the distance.’ There is a certain pragmatism to Trump having one more lick at the deep state and the whole rotting Imperial Democrat carcass. They still fight Trump in a white-hot panic because they fear him the most. Thank you, Democrats, for that bit of illumination, but just know that on Trump’s tail, whether you keep him from the Presidency in 2024 or on the back end of it, there is Ron DeSantis, waiting for you.