It had everything one could want in a juicy culture war soap opera: exposure of hypocrisy on a grand scale, comeuppance for the elites wrecking the nation, corporate media news actors' crocodile tears.

Remember when then-candidate Brandon encouraged literally everyone in Latin America "seeking asylum" to "surge" through the border as soon as he got into office?

Apparently he forgot the caveat: "just not to Martha's Vineyard where my donors have summer homes."

This is the modern tale of two cities:

When the privileged Country Club classes that populate Martha's Vineyard are made to bear the brutal impacts of their policing it's "theatre" and a "political stunt."

When average people in smalltown Texas get flooded with illegal immigrants, that's just another Tuesday. If they complain to the government that's supposed to control border crossings, they're denounced as bigots.