As many as one in 20 Floridians, a million people, could be expelled from the country under a mass deportation plan that is a cornerstone of former president Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a report released by a Washington think tank and immigration advocacy group.
“Economically devastating” seems to be the plan nationwide. Tariffs, protectionism, shrinking the population by deporting working people, persecuting the educated and defunding education… None of this fascist stuff will do anything but drive the country into greater misery and poverty.
The grift, I get. The bigotry, I get. The hate, I get. Hell, even the fealty to Putin, I get. But at this point, they’re veering into gratuitous destructive stupidity without any upsides that I can fathom at all, not even abhorrent ones. I don’t get it.