Victims of their own media bubbles, Democratic Party leaders across the country have convinced themselves that they are in the middle of a generational struggle against fascism in the United States. What is really happening is that proper enforcement of immigration law is being made widely chaotic and sometimes fatal by coordinated and well-funded provocations and obstruction, which has the explicit goal of ending all immigration enforcement entirely.
The clashes have pitted those who believe in democracy within the nation-state and those who reject both those things. Circumstances for confrontation have been created by state and local governments that, despite being elected by clearly defined populations, do not believe in such clearly defined populations, and therefore refuse to hand illegal immigrants to federal officers for deportation.
In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, the district attorney funded by billionaire George Soros, called Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “Nazis,” and threatened “to hunt … down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades,” adding “we will find your identities. We will find you.”
In New York, television host Stephen Colbert went a step further, saying ICE officers are worse than Nazis because at least “the Nazis were willing to show their faces.” What a vile, stupid, and dishonest line of argument.
In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called President Donald Trump’s immigration policies “fascist,” adding this week, “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.”
Each of these absurd comparisons becomes understandable once you know about the propaganda echo chamber that elected Democratic leaders live in. Everything activists have said about recent events in Minnesota has been believed uncritically by Democrats. They are frequently duped by obvious, outright fakery.
For Democrats, Renee Good was merely an innocent mother randomly pulled over by ICE officers before being shot in cold blood. In reality, she and her roommate were dedicated activists who used their thousand-pound vehicle to obstruct law enforcement and hit an officer while attempting to flee arrest.
For Democrats, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was targeted by ICE for arrest, detention, and deportation. In reality, ICE officers tried to arrest Ramos’s father, Adrian Conejo Ramos, who was with his son after he picked him up from school. But Ramos’s father ran when he saw the officers, abandoning his son, whom the federal officers looked after for a while. They took Ramos to McDonald’s before reuniting him with his father, at his father’s request, after he was taken into custody.
Democrats have depicted Alex Pretti as a “patient” and “calm” nurse who was just peacefully protesting ICE before being randomly executed by ICE officers. In reality, Pretti was part of an activist group that had been tracking and swarming ICE officers to prevent them from carrying out their lawful duties. There is a video of Pretti kicking and spitting at ICE officers. This does not mean he deserved to be shot, and his death must be fully investigated, but it does show his violence. When he got into a physical fight with federal officers, he was discovered to have a gun, which apparently went off in the scuffle. In these circumstances, it may be lamentable that he died, but it is also understandable that in a heated and confused ruckus that lasted just a few seconds, he was shot because he seemed to pose a threat.
The Democratic media bubble is pervasive. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), never the brightest bulb illuminating the upper chamber of Congress, showed the Senate a fake artificial intelligence-generated image of Pretti being shot. So strong were Durbin’s partisan blinders that he didn’t notice that one of the two ICE officers in the picture had no head.
Former President Joe Biden allowed about 6 million illegal immigrants to invade our country in four years. That was on top of the estimated 10 million who were already here. The public wants illegal immigrants deported, not just those who commit violent crimes. The problem for Democrats is that just 34% of their party agrees with this. That means two-thirds of Democrats think it is unreasonable for federal officials to arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. They have every right to peacefully protest ICE efforts.
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But they do not have the right to obstruct federal law enforcement, which is what Good, Pretti, and the groups they belonged to did. Law enforcement officers have every right to arrest and detain people who obstruct them in their duties. That is not fascism. That is law and order in a functioning democratic republic.
Standing up to ersatz fascism is not brave; it is delusional. The delusion is created and nurtured in the Left’s ideological echo chambers. Enforcing laws is the essence of ordered liberty, not tyranny. Democrats must abandon inflammatory rhetoric, respect federal authority, and engage in honest debate to preserve the republic they claim to defend.