DeSantis draws from white segregationist playbook for his latest political ploy

Whether out of ignorance or deliberate intent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drew from a white supremacist playbook when he tricked 50 immigrants into boarding a plane in Texas so he could stage the stunt of delivering them to wealthy vacationers at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The similarities are too striking to be mere coincidences between DeSantis’ action and one pulled by the Little Rock White Citizens’ Council in 1962. Back then, it was dubbed the Reverse Freedom Rides — an attempt to send Blacks to the North in response to Freedom Riders protesting public-transit segregation in the Sou...