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In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln's opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."
Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln's wisdom. This week's lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement standoff in the Twin Cities is but the latest instance of a yearslong baleful trend.
On Wednesday, 37-year-old "queer activist" Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good, who had barricaded her vehicle in an attempt to obstruct an active law enforcement operation, ignored agents' requests to exit the vehicle and instead directed her car at one of the agents. Good actually then hit the agent, who was briefly hospitalized for his injuries. But before she could do even more damage, the agent shot and killed Good. The federal government has called Good's encounter "an act of domestic terrorism" and said the agent shot in self-defense.
Suffice it to say Minnesota's Democratic establishment does not see it this way.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents in the area and the deadly encounter by telling ICE to "get the f--out of Minneapolis," while Gov. Tim Walz called the shooting "totally predictable" and "totally avoidable." Frey, who was also mayor during the George Floyd-inspired mayhem of 2020, has lent succor to the anti-ICE provocateurs, seemingly encouraging them to make Good a Floyd-like martyr and riot accordingly. As for Walz, he's right that this tragedy was eminently "avoidable" --but not for the reasons he thinks. If the Biden-Harris administration hadn't let in untold millions of unvetted illegal aliens, and if Walz's administration hadn't conveniently overlooked hundreds of Minnesotans --of mixed immigration status --defrauding taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars, ICE never would have embarked on this particular operation.
National Democrats took the rage even further. Following the fateful shooting, the Democratic Party's official X feed promptly tweeted, without any morsel of nuance, that "ICE shot and killed a woman on camera." This sort of reckless fear-mongering may have already inspired a crazed activist to shoot three detainees at an ICE facility in Dallas last September while targeting officers; similar dehumanizing rhetoric about the National Guard perhaps also played a role in November's lethal shooting of a soldier in Washington, D.C.