Dear libs: Stop gloating over red state tragedies

When hurricane Harvey struck Texas, utterly devastating my hometown and many other parts of the state, the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo featured a cover that read “Deus Existe!” (“God Exists!”). It had an image of submerged Nazis doing the old “Sieg Heil” from beneath the floodwaters. The outlet, which had received so much support from Americans during its own tragedy, returned the favor with tactless cruelty. I was livid. Though I moved away from the state more than a decade ago, I consider Texas my home and I have many elderly relatives living there.

Scrolling through Twitter, I was disappointed — though not exactly surprised — to see the same sort of smug callousness expressed by my own compatriots in response to the current crisis. French edgelords who have probably never set foot in Texas could maybe be forgiven for not knowing that the entire population of one of the country’s most populous states aren’t white supremacists.

American liberals should know better.

There’s a pervasive sentiment online among Democrats that the deadly mass power outage in Texas is somehow karmic retribution for the state voting Trump in the last election. It’s not hard to find examples of liberals gloating over stories about people suffering unspeakable hardships, glibly commenting that Texas is getting what it…