Standing Up For Our Neighbors - A Vital Lesson From The Siege Of Minnesota
Happy Sunday all. If you are looking for informative discussions to dive into this holiday weekend I shared a few timely ones in yesterday’s post. Feel free to head there and dive in……
Today’s post is about one of the big lessons coming from the Trump Administration’s siege of Minnesota - that the brave people of Minnesota have put their lives on the line not just to “rein in ICE” but primarily to protect their neighbors. When ICE and DHS came to Minnesota to take people away tens of thousands of every day Minnesotans stood up for their neighbors, took to the streets, and said no. In their courageous fight for their neighbors, many legally here, something incredibly powerful, deeply American, and extraordinarily inspiring was born.
Echoing JB Pritzker’s challenge that if Trump and Miller wanted to come for the people of Illinois they would have to go through him, the people of Minnesota made it clear that if the regime wanted to come for their neighbors they would have to go through them (read this new terrific essay from Greg Sargent on the important role Govs. Newsom and Pritzker played in getting us to this moment). And this bravery, this courage, the moral power of standing for their neighbors won the day, and ICE, it appears, is retreating.
National Democrats need to learn this lesson from these early fights against DHS-ICE to inform and animate our current campaign against the regime to reform DHS. We know from data that the country wants to rein in and reform ICE, and the smart 10 point plan Dem leaders have offered will go a long way in doing so. But to win this fight, and I mean truly win it, we need to add a second piece to our narrative - we must make it clear that we are also standing up for our neighbors.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/standing-up-for-our-neighbors-a-vital
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