Hell yes I wish Republicans would realize that the fed does a lot of good, and we should be working together as a nation.
Immigration needs to be addressed, but right now it has become a wedge issue and it behooves politicians from both parties to keep the issue alive. What are the current wedge issues? Abortion, immigration, and inflation from what I can tell. Climate change might be on its way out if Republicans more and more are accepting there is a climate crisis, I think some are shifting their views.
DeSantis pulled a horrible stunt with shipping the immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. He did nothing to earn Massachusetts they were coming, and obviously it was political garbage, BUT the way the Democrats frame it is annoying to me too. I’ve seen the map the people were given of the US and as far as I’m concerned there is nothing wrong with that map.
Some of them wanted to get closer to family in NY, that was closer. It would have been nice if they could have been flown to NY. There is nothing wrong with the US COORDINATING with states to move people around who are coming across the boarder, but his stunt wasn’t that. From what I understand the people also weren’t given correct information to reschedule their appointments with for asylum review, but I have to say I was surprised the appointment aren’t with USCIS myself, but they should know better.
I saw DeSantis on the Weather Channel about an hour ago. He was complimenting the local disaster management people and mayors in the counties, which I was happy to see he didn’t try to take all of the credit. He reassured that our long term care facilities deemed ok to stay in during the hurricane all have back up generators (he was specifically asked about them during interview). Gas for cars has been kept fairly well available and water, and giving good general advice again to expect to lose power. 30,000 utility workers are standing by waiting for the storm to pass.
Edit: The central government is characterized by the Religious Right as secular, anti-Christian, irresponsible, and destructive.