“We’re using lethal force against the cartels,” flailing Florida tough guy Ron DeSantis asserts to a cultish studio audience at a supposed news program on a proven propaganda network. “If they’re bringing fentanyl in, breaking into our country, ah [note the momentary struggle to recall the landing line], we’re gonna leave ’em stone cold dead at the border. Trust me, they will get the message.”
Set aside the illegality of executing civilians extrajudicially at the border. Given that most fentanyl comes across the border at authorized border check points, and the people smuggling it in are usually Americans, DeSantis’s authoritarian policy proposal is the red meat the far right craves, but it’s also a felony.