Saturday, January 31, 2026

The backfire has begun: It was set by the people of Minneapolis

Massive crowds from California to New York turn out to protest ICE crackdowns | Watch The attempt to frighten protesters into submission in Minneapolis is backfiring on the Trumpists, and instead, their violent behavior may be resulting in more than just increasing the numbers of protesters in Minneapolis, but it is feeding an already vibrant pro democracy movement nationwide. Many can now see what it is like to be oppressed by an out-of-control militia, a hands-on lesson to the rest of the nation of what a police state dictatorship looks and feels like. Supporting democracy is no longer a matter of keeping some revered abstract political science theory memorialized in a Founders' document that we must protect just because we have had it for 250 years. Protecting it is the antidote to a real-life attempt by a wannabe tyrant strong man to wreck a democracy so he can have more power at the expense of we the people.

In Minneapolis, the neighborhood-by-neighborhood and city-wide demonstrations of thousands have become an inspiration to those fighting to keep a democracy in hundreds of communities elsewhere. To help keep the focus on ICE's violent overreach, Bruce Springsteen just composed a protest song:

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