The crass politics of windy compassion Jewish World Review, Sep 29, 2017, Wesley Pruden
Those ill winds blowing out of the Caribbean are blowing somebody good, or at least there's somebody who thinks they're good. There's always profit in somebody else's misery.
Some Democrats in Washington see opportunities to make hay with Puerto Ricans who would settle for a drink of clean water and something to eat. Hurricane Maria, now safely out to sea, has so ruined the island that many Puerto Ricans are encouraged to resettle in Florida, a swing state with the partisan numbers so narrow that only a few Puerto Ricans might swing it permanently to the left and to the Democrats.
Republicans see opportunities, too. Puerto Ricans, usually Roman Catholic and socially conservative have only a superficial attachment to the party of anything goes, as long as it goes to the weird and noisy.
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