I'm old enough to remember the days when Republicans welcomed the victims of communism to our shores—not just for the obvious humanitarian reasons, but for the political statement that it makes. Few things shout, "land of the free, home of the brave" more than welcoming freedom seekers who have risked life and limb to come to America.
Yet the big political news this week is that Florida's Republican governor and presidential aspirant, Ron DeSantis, spent $1.5 million dollars to fly Venezuelan migrants from a detention center outside San Antonio, Texas, (yes, Texas) to Martha's Vineyard—the upscale Massachusetts island that sits of the coast of Cape Cod. The airlift caught local officials off guard.
