The West Hollywood City Council’s clown-show attack on Home Depot
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The West Hollywood City Council’s clown-show attack on Home Depot
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A clown show of performative politics.
Typically, that’s the result when sanctimonious California city councils butt in to federal issues.
Exhibit A comes courtesy of the West Hollywood City Council.
The council recently purged Home Depot from the city’s list of approved vendors, for the alleged affront of assisting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Never mind that the home-improvement titan denies working with ICE.
Never mind that Home Depot parking lots, where illegal-immigrant laborers have long congregated, are public spaces where anyone, ICE included, is free to tread.
Never mind all that. The council had a point to make. And in some, the compulsion is strong: Must. Virtue. Signal.
The reality is, there’s nothing Home........
