The unfolding crisis involving Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, has the potential to define this entire moment in U.S. history. For instance, while we rightly lay responsibility for the crisis at the feet of establishment politicians like President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we must also acknowledge a much deeper and darker truth about the other culprits, who sadly number in the millions. In an interview Thursday with Lawrence B. Jones of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News, longtime Springfield resident Diana Daniels described life in the town as “like living in a dystopian nightmare” and declared that “we’ve needed help for several years.” Daniels’s “dystopian nightmare” attracted national attention for one of the unlikeliest reasons anyone could have imagined.

Then, during Tuesday’s presidential debate, Trump mentioned the pet-eating rumors. On CNN afterward, establishment mouthpiece Kaitlan Collins tried to shame Ohio’s Republican Sen. J.D. Vance — Trump’s running mate — for what she characterized as false claims on the part of both the former president and his vice-presidential nominee. Vance expertly replied that journalists should have cared about Springfield’s plight long before the pet-eating rumors and memes materialized.

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