I really cannot understate the significance of this moment.
I've long speculated that if we were going to have a second civil war, especially one that takes on a more explicit character as opposed to sporadic terror attacks, that the acute cause would be state and federal authorities pitted against each other over deportations in "sanctuary cities."
The parallel to the first Civil War is the Fugitive Slave Act, which was a law that allowed federal marshals to recapture escaped slaves in the north and return them to the south. In practice, when federal marshals went to the north to enforce this law, they were resisted not only by activist protestors, but by local law enforcement on orders from municipal and state authorities.
The danger is in the breakdown of appropriate hierarchical power structures. It is well established that state authority is subordinate to federal authority within the United States. When state authorities actively pit their law enforcement against the feds they are making appeals to two separate power structures and have functionally factionalized into opposition forces, which creates the schism that can then manifest as civil war as there are now two defined and competing power structures appealing to authority.
There is further evidence to suggest that in the same way that the Trump admin appears to have been gradually acclimating the public to the need to invoke the Insurrection Act, the Democrats have likewise been gradually acclimating the public to the need to declare the Trump administration illegitimate and that they are retaking control by force.
The Left has long engaged in rhetoric intended to suggest that Trump is fascist, the end of Democracy, the next Hitler, etc. to lay the moral justification for hostile action against us. They have normalized violence against agents of the state as well as mere right-wing supporters of the administration. They have released seditious statements intended to foment disorder in the ranks, trigger a coup, or indicate that military staff who obey Trump's orders will be subject to punitive measures should they return to power. They have produced numerous governors and mayors who openly defied federal authority. And they are now stating intention to order law enforcement under their command to resist law enforcement under federal command.
All of this suggests escalation to that final fracture point where two competing power/authority structures become clearly defined and conflict begins.
Further, the Democrat elite class is incentivized to take this gamble for a combination of personal and strategic reasons. Tim Walz, in the wake of this massive fraud scandal, has no political future as evidenced by his own dropping out of the race. He additionally is comparatively likely among prominent Democrats to actually be imprisoned due to his direct implication in this fraud scheme. Tim, therefore, is incentivized personally to risk conflict because success in such a conflict could completely save his hide from impending consequences. This same logic applies to other Democrats are comparatively high risk of punitive measures due to clear criminal conduct.
Then the Democratic establishment itself is incentivized to gamble on this if they determine that Trump's reforms, mass remigration, etc. actually undermine their ability to realistically win elections. In other words, if Democrats know that it is true they cannot win an election fairly, particularly in a post-voter-ID or post-remigration world, then they may determine that it is better to gamble on high stakes conflict, victory in which would secure their ongoing dominance, as opposed to simply allowing Trump's agenda to be completed and functionally losing their grip on power forever, which we have repeatedly stated is in fact our ultimate goal.
There are thus both personal elite-level incentives to gamble on high-stakes conflict, and system-wide incentives to do the same. These people are not moral. They do not care about "Democracy" in any meaningful conception of the word. They care about maintaining their own power and I think it would be naive to assume they are not willing to fight or kill to maintain that power. They have already demonstrated a clear willingness to do so.
And on the other side, the Trump admin cannot back away from this. If the administration were to give up and leave Minnesota for example, then the administration is shown to be impotent and all power shifts back to the Democrat establishment, where those involved in the Trump admin will almost certainly be imprisoned at best once the Left regains the Presidency. The Trump admin is thus also incentivized to not back down and to meet the conflict head on should Walz actually pull the trigger and order his forces to contest federal authority. Moreover, Trump is the kind of personality who would absolutely double down rather than pull back in this circumstance. The implication is that if the Democrats do cross this line, the conflict WILL happen.
And it should. Because we are in the right. We won the election. We have been operating within the law. And the Left cannot be allowed to continue to just unleash violence against the state because they are no longer getting their way; because they are no longer being allowed to pillage our nation.
The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game that has real potential to escalate to major conflict, but if they are going to force that confrontation we must meet it with overwhelming force. We are very much so at the point where invoking the Insurrection Act is both justified and necessary. The idea that a state governor can threaten to pit the national guard against federal agents and not suffer dire, seditious/treasonous consequences is unacceptable.
No quarter in Minnesota. Arrest Walz. Arrest every Somalian scammer. Deport everyone who doesn't belong here. Strip citizenships. If this is the hill we die on so be it.