smartcooky
Penultimate Amazing
For very limited definitions of "backfire"
The facts are that DeSantis and his scumbag minions fully expected the residents of Martha's Vinyard to react exactly how they themselves would react; the way the DO react when confronted with brown-skinned immigrants and asylum-seekers (i.e. "OMG!!!!! What are all those brown people doing here? We don't want them here. There's no place for them here. Put them on the first plane home").
Instead, the regular white-skinned residents, many of them elderly and retired, pulled out all the stops to make them welcome. They fed them, and gave them clothes and mobile phones, they brought local school kids to help translate for them, gave them a place to stay. Residents from across the island raised more than $175,000, some of the donations were multiple thousands of dollars but most of them in the $50 to $100 range. The Vinyarders acted in a kind, generous, humanitarian way, the exact opposite of what DeSantis and his cronies expected.
That is a backfire any way you slice it, and it could get worse for DeSantis, a lot worse.
Now of course, it will never influence the hard core GOP supporters, because for them, triggering the libz and inflicting cruelty on brown skinned people is the whole point. But it could well influence independents, and in a close election, it is the independents who have the greatest impact on the outcome.
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