What is a more glaring sign of budding fascism in the United States: Federal immigration authorities enforcing immigration laws passed by Congress, or mobs of activists harassing random people on the streets or in their places of worship for not adhering to the platform of their political movement?
Both are playing out in Minneapolis right now, and it is clear which one is making things worse. Videos on social media show anti-ICE (functionally, pro-open borders) activists harassing a random man and interrogating him about being an ICE agent because he was driving an SUV. That man was hounded, on camera, into professing his admiration and respect for the activists who were actively harassing him.
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More videos show a group of engineers who were swarmed at a deli by delusional left-wing activists, blowing their whistles to signal a group of people that they had deemed to be unacceptable. The mob demanded that those men show identification because, in their words, “Yeah, you look like a f****** ICE agent.”
This culminated in a mob shutting down a church service, heckling the churchgoers (including children) with their protest messages. That mob claimed that a pastor at the church worked for ICE. (He has the same name as the acting field director for ICE in Minnesota). Former CNN personality Don Lemon was there with the mob, claiming that they had a First Amendment right to shut down the church service and that children being traumatized by being yelled at by lunatic protesters during church is “what protesting is about.”
What you have with ICE agents in Minneapolis is people exercising the lawful authority to detain illegal immigrants and, on the other end of that, anyone interfering with federal law enforcement actions. Democrats and their activists call that fascism, comparing federal law enforcement to Nazis and calling them President Donald Trump’s personal Gestapo.
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On the other hand, you have mobs with no authority demanding that random citizens turn over identification and show themselves to be part of the right political movement, lest they be heckled, harassed, and hounded out of restaurants or churches. These people are demanding conformity and enforcing it by swarming people in large numbers, carrying an implicit threat of violence if they do not comply with the mob’s demands. All the while, Democratic politicians in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and across the country shrug their shoulders and, in fact, encourage these mob tactics. Which one of these sounds like a precursor to fascism to you?
These mob tactics are dangerous, and Democrats are encouraging them through their deranged rhetoric and their sanctuary policies that make it necessary for ICE to conduct these large-scale raids in the first place. Democrats are fine with the fact that their activist base is trying to harass people into supporting their political movement, which is far, far closer to bringing in fascism than law enforcement officials tasked with deporting illegal immigrants doing their jobs.