The Bulwark

The Sludge Is the Point
—Andrew Egger

Yesterday, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins was scrolling social media at work when he saw something that got him steamed. A nonprofit representing Haitian migrants was calling for criminal charges against Donald Trump and JD Vance in Springfield for making them the targets of a national moral panic.

So Higgins did what one does when they get mad online: He tweeted about it.

“Lol. These Haitians are wild,” Higgins wrote from the Capitol. “Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters. . . but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of the country before January 20th.”