Trump's Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration
Of course most Democrats in blue states think they'll be next. But the point the felon makes is to win the first fight in MN, and from what his govt thugs learn, top to bottom, the easier the other blue state fights will be, not to mention the hundreds of billions at their disposal to invade those states. We know the fight is obvious: propagandizing to deepen divisions between the urban and rural voters through racism. Again.
He'll distract corporate media for the entire year, such that when Congress and the SCOTUS recess for the summer before the midterms, he can invoke the Insurrection Act or Martial Law and suspend elections.
Court fights will ensue, though the only court he obeys is the SCOTUS, so I suspect he has this timed.
Even with enough resisters in our camp -- white, non-white, US military, and legal orgs -- to stop him, without the SCOTUS, I just don't know how they will.
My greatest hope is that dictatorial force/violence will never overcome the idea of America.
This piece explains his war of attrition against our civic ideals before the midterms.
https://archive.ph/8Xsih
... Minnesota had been a haven for refugees since after World War II ...
This hospitality had historically been a point of pride for the state, a piece of the exceptionalism that Minnesotans ... modest as they are, have always claimed. It was a product of a broader, deep-rooted civic idealism: the state’s preponderance of religious charities, community-level nonprofit organizations and in particular its Nordic-style social safety net, among the most generous in the country.
But amid the Shabab and ISIS recruitment, Minnesotans had grown ambivalent. A 2014 poll found that while the state’s residents were broadly supportive of immigration, less than half supported welcoming Somali immigrants...
At an October 2015 listening session in ... St. Cloud, where tensions had run particularly high, the state’s Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, addressed the Somali community. “This is Minnesota, and you have every right to be here,” he said. The state, he said, was “not like it was 30, 50 years ago,” when its population was nearly entirely white — and bigots who had a problem with that should “find a state where the minority population is 1 percent or whatever. It’s not that in Minnesota. It’s not going to be again.”...
Trump’s message, a year later, was that, in fact, it could be that again. If elected, he promised, his administration would “not admit any refugees without the support of the local community ... You’ve suffered enough in Minnesota.” ... on Wednesday, after a top Trump Justice Department official declared Minnesota’s resistance to the federal deployment an “insurrection” on social media, Walz posted on X that his state “will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.” ... On the ground in Minneapolis ... the largely unified local response to the flood of federal forces into Minneapolis is remarkable in light of the city’s very recent history, which has involved a deep soul-searching about precisely that ideal ...This has been true nationally, too.
The response to Trump’s first year back in office has made clear that ambivalence and opposition are not the same thing. It is hard to think of a federal action that has become more unpopular more quickly than Trump’s immigration raids. Last February, a YouGov poll for The Economist found that a plurality of independent voters — 42 percent of them — had a favorable view of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a poll conducted the day of Renee Good’s shooting, 56 percent of independents disapproved of the agency’s work, 44 percent of them strongly. That is a picture of a country that mostly agrees with Walz that this is not who we are — even if it is not entirely sure who it is instead. If Trump’s candidacy was a sustained attack on the idea of civic nationalism, his second presidency has very quickly become a clarification of what the alternative looks like ... a masked federal agent shooting a woman in the head through the windshield of her own car."
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