Martial law is the antithesis of vigilantism.
It can be argued that the initial shipment of migrant trash to MV is in fact an act of a vigilante governor. At present there are two such vigilantes at work and acting positively
What’s more, here just before the election, these active vigilantes have struck a nerve. The reaction to the Martha’s Vineyard shipment can only result in many more. It might be that funds are collected privately to allow Texas and Florida to send unlimited migrant trash to Massachusetts.
In days of old, we here at Free Republic could raise $25,000 for such an effort in perhaps just two days.
A governor executing the sovereign power of a state is not a vigilante. Vigilantes are private citizens attempting to execute powers normally reserved to the sovereign, usually because of the breakdown of civil authority and the lack of a local agent with sovereign authority.