Georgia's Rep. Buddy Carter, a RepublicanOfCourse, managed during a town hall meeting back home to reach new heights of repulsiveness; his new idea is that to rein in "sanctuary cities" with policies Buddy Carter doesn't like, the federal government should stop paying for processing rape kits in those cities.
WOMAN 2: “Can I ask a quick follow up? Were you serious about the sanctuary city remark, or was that just a joke? Like, you wouldn’t provide grants to test rape kits if it was a sanctuary city?”
CARTER: “No, we do not, I voted for a bill that does not allow federal law enforcement grants to go to any sanctuary cities, I was very serious about that. If there is a federal law enforcement grant– I voted for a bill that says they will not get any federal law enforcement money from us, any grants.”
WOMAN 2: “Do you feel like that serves your constituents?”
CARTER: “Yes, it does. It does serve my constituents, because if you’re a sanctuary city, that means you are refusing to enforce our immigration laws here in the United States, and if you’re doing that, then I don’t want to be sending you any federal grants to go to your city.”
Again, it seems like at some point Republican voters decided that they would only support the worst people their party had to offer—the southern states led the way on this one, and Texas appears to have made a new fall sport of it, but Republicans in the rest of the nation quickly caught up—just to see what would happen. Buddy Carter is the sort of man most of us would gladly scrape off our shoe; his Georgia base elects him to Congress.