"The Department of Homeland Security, communicating with the public through its official account on X, sent an ominous message last week: "FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!" What ensued, as you might expect when a heavily armed security agency announces an operation in terms typically employed by comic-book-movie villains, was chaos. ICE agents, many of them masked, went on to detain citizens and noncitizens alike."
"Republicans have deplored the mayhem in Minnesota. But they don't hold the agency that set it off responsible. Instead they've condemned the protesters and the Democratic politicians who encouraged them. When President Trump undertakes a policy or goal that the rest of his party cannot bring itself to endorse, his allies' usual move is to attribute a different and more noble motivation to him, while shifting the blame to his opponents. So it is in Minnesota."
""The scenes of destruction and damage taking place in Minneapolis are abhorrent. This violence cannot be tolerated. Unfortunately, our state leaders' inaction and support of these violent riots are failing every Minnesotan and putting law enforcement's lives at risk," wrote House Whip Tom Emmer, a Minnesotan. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz " want the crazy," Representative Byron Donalds charged."
DHS posted an ominous message on X threatening Minnesota with a day of reckoning and retribution. ICE agents, many masked, detained citizens and noncitizens, threatened and sometimes used violence, and provoked widespread protests. Republicans condemned the resulting mayhem but directed blame at protesters and Democratic officials rather than at the agency that initiated the action. Minnesota Republicans Tom Emmer and Byron Donalds accused state leaders of enabling violence and of wanting 'the crazy.' Governor Tim Walz said Trump seeks street violence, and conservative commentators mocked his language. The episode illustrated a pattern of attributing noble motives to Trump while shifting blame to opponents.
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