Michael Hiltzik: How the GOP counts on Democrats' goodwill to conceal its own cruelty
In a world where Republicans set political standards, one could expect that migrants would be abandoned in remote places without hope of succor and that funding for infrastructure construction and disaster relief would be provided only to GOP-led communities.
We don't live in that world because political and humanitarian counterbalances exist to GOP policies.
"Republicans count on their enemies not to reciprocate their callous nihilism," observes political scientist Scott Lemieux of the University of Washington and the Lawyers, Guns & Money group blog.
The phenomenon has been vividly visible in recent days and weeks. Florida Republican politicians including Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio have pleaded for federal disaster assistance in the wake of Hurricane Ian, as a freshman congressman in 2013.)
