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Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left: HERE.
Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?
What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
It certainly isn’t the idea that states can defy the federal government on immigration law. Obama took Arizona v. United States to the Supreme Court to prevent states from enforcing their own immigration laws. The Biden administration dispatched some of the same federal immigration law enforcement officers now being assaulted and booed to dismantle barriers and fencing put up by states like Arizona and Texas to control the mass invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
Democrats however never actually believed that states couldn’t defy the federal government on immigration law, more properly they believe that states can only defy the federal government by moving further leftward. That’s why they support sanctuary states like California and Minnesota whose defiance of federal authority has escalated to the point of armed conflict, but went after states that tried to secure their borders and block illegal aliens from overrunning their cities.
The broader consistent principle at stake isn’t federalism: it’s leftism. The entire political and cultural machine that has been mobilized over Minneapolis opportunistically supports wielding federal authority over states and state rejection of federal authority on immigration law only when the end result, whether state or federal, is open borders and mass illegal alien invasions.
This is true in all areas. The Left has no legal, let alone constitutional, principles, only goals.
Does the same network of politicians, media talking heads and professional agitators oppose police crackdowns, federal interventions and harassment of innocent people? Obviously not.
We’re not that many years away from the COVID lockdowns during which protests were banned, people could have the police show up at their door to ask if they were secretly conducting religious services or Thanksgiving meals. Today’s ‘born-again’ leftist libertarians implemented state regimes that criminalized everyday conduct. They marked their federal takeover by filling D.C. with troops and holding an inauguration under a virtual martial law while hunting down the people who took part in a political riot of the kind their leftist allies pull off every other month, including in Minneapolis, because it’s not about the act, it’s about the politics.
The objections to federal immigration law enforcement raiding homes or deporting children are certainly not grounded in any kind of principled position. Bill Clinton, who emerged from defying a congressional subpoena in the Epstein case, to condemn federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, had Attorney General Janet Reno, known for staging multiple confrontations that ended in mass deaths, build a plan with 250 immigration agents to raid a Miami home and, in defiance of the court, kidnap a 5-year-old refugee boy from his family and send him to Cuba.
Heavily armed border patrol agents operating under an illegal warrant used a battering ram to smash their way into the family home, kicked down doors and screamed at the 5-year-old boy’s cousin, “Give me the f – – – ing boy or we’ll shoot you.”
Tony Zumbado, an NBC cameraman, was kicked in the stomach. “We got maced, we got kicked, we got roughed up.” The NBC sound guy was hit in the head with a rifle butt and lay bleeding on the ground. Members of the little boy’s family were not only held at gunpoint, but reportedly had laser dots trained on their foreheads. Clinton’s feds put a boot on his back and the NBC cameraman was told, “don’t move or we’ll shoot.”
NBC News not only had no objection to its people being assaulted and hospitalized, but it celebrated the kidnapping, and an NBC spokeswoman, when asked about the assault on one of its own people, replied, “It’s too early to say how we feel or don’t feel.” While all of that happened a while back, the NBC News affiliate in South Florida had a more recent upbeat twentieth anniversary sit-down interview with the man behind the operation and the assault on NBC News personnel was tactfully not brought up by anyone involved.
Suffice it to say that neither the Democrats nor the media have any objection to sending in the Border Patrol, battering down the doors of private homes and seizing and deporting kids, while bypassing court rulings and the rule of law, as long as the political objective is a leftist one.
The Left usually wants to keep illegals and refugees in, rather than out, but the moment that it decides that its political agenda is served by deporting someone, it will send in the troops, smash down doors, beat up reporters and threaten to kill family members.
So once again that’s not the principle that leftists are trying to kill and die in Minneapolis over.
The principle isn’t states’ rights. That’s a principle that only comes into play when asserting that states can block federal law enforcement from arresting illegal alien criminals, sign treaties with China, set their own fuel emissions standards or some other leftist policy goal.
The principle certainly isn’t that people should be secure in their own homes and free of having to show their papers to heavily armed agents of the state. That principle may be sacred when it comes to illegal alien criminals (although not child refugees from Communism) but goes out the window when it comes to meeting during lockdowns, filling in rainwater on private property, or committing some other offense against some ideological leftist agenda item.
Even deportation and armed immigration law enforcement officers breaking into homes is an entirely transactional position that can fly out the window when it suits the Left.
What this means in the broader sense is that we are not a nation of laws, but of leftists.
The Left does not believe in or follow any laws or principles other than its own politics. There is no rule of law (and certainly not of the Constitution) that applies consistently at all times. Laws are just a means to a leftist end. If a law is momentarily suited to that end, it will be upheld and suddenly trumpeted as the great pillar of democracy and all that separates us from the beasts.
The next minute it will be trampled on and dismissed as systemic racism that will doom us all.
(Take the Senate, hailed as a bulwark of democracy when Democrats hold it, and as a legacy of slavery when Republicans take it back. Or the Supreme Court which goes from the only thing protecting us from tyranny to a corrupt institution that needs to be packed or abolished.)
That’s why the same leftist movement that has spent generations claiming that only fascists and madmen carry guns in public has now embraced the Second Amendment to defend a gunman who was shot while taking part in harassing federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis.
Orwell’s ‘We have always been at war with Eastasia’ with its endlessly morphing party dogma is the defining political principle of a leftist party that can simultaneously deny the existence of women and champion feminism, that tells Jews they are Israel’s best friends and claims that Israel is committing genocide, that flips from delivering speeches surrounded by armed soldiers to playing revolutionaries depending on who is in power and who controls all the guns.
Don’t get the idea that the Left doesn’t believe in anything. It believes in a great many things. But those things don’t include the Constitution, the rule of the people, any laws that they don’t make and any limitations on their power to fundamentally transform America and the world.
Everything else is transactional and disposable.
Americans increasingly live under a corrupt tyranny that pretends to be a democracy, a one-party state that shamelessly gerrymanders and rigs elections, a bunch of radical thugs pretending to be civil rights warriors, informers playing reformers, criminals acting as if they are rebels, and tyrants playacting revolutionaries. In the areas under their control, there are many laws, but there are also no laws, because these places are nations of leftists, not laws.
The larger crisis in Minneapolis and the United States of America is not that radical mobs with the support of city and state governments are waging war in the streets against federal law enforcement. That’s only a symptom of the problem. The problem is that there are no laws, except what leftists want to do, and that means that there is no rule of law, only the rule of leftists.
Minnesota doesn’t just need some raids to bust illegal alien criminals, it needs liberating. The illegal alien criminals being harbored in sanctuary states and cities are just one element of a larger radical infestation seizing control of the country, mile by mile, and state by state.
America will either have the rule of law or the rule of leftists. That’s what this is about.
Excellent analysis.
The leftists are like a pack of piranhas, devouring anything in their way.
I will applaud when the Soros clan crashes and burns, and their assets are seized.
…and devouring anything to get their way, which is only about evil and lawlessness.
Another brilliant essay from Mr. Greenfield.
Great points, Daniel.
I hope you can see the root of the Evil in Minneapolis. It is obvious this is professional.
James O’Keefe has some great video. This is the best video I’ve seen that explains what is happening.
This is Foreign Counterinsurgency by Britain.
FILTHY LIBERALS
God Bless America.
Canadians care deeply about you and America. I hope and Pray we can be a United North America.
Republicans don’t seem to get what they are up against ruthless monsters who want blood. Republicans respond by wetting their bed and hiding under their desks. Great before the midterms!
Plus many Rs are on the take
The truth may well be the true honest list of Rs is small in comparison to those on the take.
What people don’t seem to get is that it’s the globalists against nationalists – on both sides of the aisle.
As David said, “It’s a war, stupid.”
This whole anti-ICE operation is intended to seek unending Leftist political control on the national level. Biden allowed in twelve million or more illegals to add to the estimated 22-29 million illegals in the country before Biden took office. The object of today’s “resistance” is the Democrats’ all hands on deck effort (including street thugs, their judges, their media, their politicians) to keep as many of them in the country until the Democrats’ can again take power. At that point they will give them citizenship and will have an unbeatable majority in federal elections forever more. You (maybe) heard it here first.
I live there and could not agree more
Liberate Minnesota!!
Al Franken, Garrison Keller, The artists formerly know as Prince. Minnesota is full of weirdoos as my granny use to say.
Historians and legal scholars often argue that the 10th Amendment, intended to check federal power and protect state sovereignty, is too vague to definitively outline the boundary between state and federal authority.
As a result, its interpretation has shifted over time—from limiting federal power to becoming a rarely used “truism” regarding reserved powers—leading to ad hoc judicial decisions rather than a clear, consistent legal principle.
It’s like the founders were purposely vague . Almost as if they were saying If it takes war , so be it .
Absolutely, and it’s also why Joseph McCarthy warned about the dangers about the fight against Communism turning into a fight between the Republicans and Democrats.
When you really break it down, McCarthy wasn’t really fighting Communism in government. At least, not exclusively.
He was primarily concerned with finding and bringing to justice the party covering for them. And that party was the same party that ended him: the American Left.
“The American people realize that this cannot be made a fight between America’s two great political parties. If this fight against Communism is made a fight between America’s two great political parties, the American people know that one of those parties will be destroyed, and the Republic can’t endure very long as a one-party system.”
– Joseph McCarthy (1951)
Couldn’t we give Minnesotastan to Canada? It appears to be a state invented by Swedish and Norwegian leftists.. They will be right at home up there.
I won’t concede one square inch of land to filthy leftists.
One of your fellow Minnesotans didn’t.
The patriot was surrounded, harassed, and attacked.
He put 5 assholes on the ground – knocking out 2 of ’em.
(Thought that might brighten your day. It did mine.)
trade for maybe Alberta
Was today Dumb Idea Day? If so, we have a winner. “Minnesotastan”—oh, to be in 4th grade again— is about 2% Muslim.
Minnesota has four U.S. Congressman. Two are Republicans. But hey, maybe the GOP margin is so great in the House thanks to Trump that we don’t need them, right?
What is Trump’s tariff rate on Canadian imports, i.e. on U.S. consumers, today?
Maybe the Republicans can employ another one of your other brilliant suggestions and “arm up.” Worked out great for Alex Pretti…
Perhaps we could include you in the Minnesotastan deal, since Trump and tariffs seem to be your twin obsessions
Nah. Scandihooligans aren’t very cozy up that way. Besides, there are many amongst them who do not think/act s the baddies are doing there now.
Nope. Do the right thing and DEAL with the rabble rousers on the dole making trouble.
I’ve been saying this for years. Isn’t there some way the USA can simply FIRE Minnesota? Some Constitutional way the other 49 can persuade them to secede? Do we really NEED Minnesota? They don’t believe in the Constitution, they don’t follow our laws, they have their own educational, judicial, political and socioeconomic system–let’s just let them go. What have they ever contributed to America? Walter Mondale, Bob Dylan, Tim Walz and George Floyd? 49 is plenty.
Excellent analysis of what’s really going on. “Laws are just a means to a leftist end.” Revolution by any means necessary. Happening now in America.
This is a long but critical X post from Eric Schwalm, former U.S. Special Forces Warrant Officer that’s circulating on anti-left blogs. Every American should read this and be terrified and motivated to try to stop this leftist Insurrection before it’s too late.
part 1 of 2
“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.”
part 2 of 2
“This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.”
“…….. we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.”
One small question: explain who “we” are. As far as I can tell, the “we” you’re talking about is a small and inconsequential group.
The problems that America faces today could be seen coming decades ago by anyone who cared to look. The problem is, everyone saw it coming but to few gave a damn.
Perhaps you’re one of the few who did but that doesn’t matter now. We’ve past the point of no return and there’s little to no chance of going back to the America of old that you pine for. Besides, the American people are passively content to watch America’s demise unfold on TV and do nothing about it. If anything, they’ll just change the channel to something more interesting and “entertaining.”
Sorry to be the barer of bad news but it is what it is.
The words you quote aren’t mine — they’re from Eric Schwalm former U.S. Special Forces Warrant Officer’s X-post that I cut and pasted as a comment at FPM because the tactics used by leftist insurgents that Schwalm describes in detail may be of interest to people who are trying to understand what is going on — no individual can stop it but they can prepare themselves for the enormity of what’s happening by understanding realistically what is ocurring and how it’s being done. I’m not even American — my country has already collapsed — I don’t pine for anything other than not living under globalist-collectivist China-style “soft” Totalitarianism — I seek no fantasized past (I’ve always been an anti-Utopian and anti-hopium realist) — these problems started long ago and I’ve been railing about them for decades like a lone madman while everyone else shrugs and sheeples. But I’m old and live in a socialist country so I know how to survive the Left — I just feel sad that the USA is collapsing like my country and the rest of the Western world. No pining for anything — just mourning.
Similar to the Bolsheviks under Lenin & Trotsky before the Russian Revolution.
At the core of the Leftist Movement is incurable mentally illness.
‘Mental illness’ is a cop out. The real problem with leftist insurrectionists is that they are full of the Devil.
Forget a nation of laws. That’s the old America, the old way of thinking. Now we’re a nation of do whatever feels good in the moment. Hedonism is the order of the day and things like right & wrong, good & bad, law & order, common decency and civility are passé moralisms.
That’s the “new” America we live in today. Can it or better yet, will it last?
Well, that’s the America that’s is packaged and sold as the way to happiness that Lefties buy into. But that’s just bread and circus. The real America the decision making Left wants is a truncheon to the skull and a jackboot in the face if you don’t agree with the NWO. 15 minute cities limiting movement.
Criminal prosecution for driving a car over your allotment.
Dietary protein composed of ground up insects while overlords dine on fine cuts of beef.
Iatrogenic illness from a depraved medical healthcare system that provides neither health or care.
Illness as the norm.
Depravity as culture.
I would love to respond with what I really think but FPM would never allow it to be posted. Suffice it to say, I don’t disagree with anything you said.
“Illness is the norm
Depravity as culture”
And Satan as their god.
“This is true in all areas. The Left has no legal, let alone constitutional, principles, only goals.” This is true in ALL areas regardless of where or by whom. That includes from behind pulpits, teachers’ desks, city councils, state legislatures, Congress, and the White House. What is the goal? Then look beyond the stated goal to figure out how the Left is going to use it to advance THEIR goal. It’s a jungle out there.
…and now Newsom is gloating declaring Trump has caved on ICE activities in Minnesota and scaling back after his calls to the mayor and governor.
The left cries out for law? This entire mess has been generated by leftist administrations’ “arbitrary non enforcement” of immigration law. Now the left is so concerned about the law?
It appears to me a fight for power. That’s all the left cares about and power is gained at the ballot box. Illegals are a play for more votes, legal or illegal. I do believe there are many leftist U.S. citizens but not as many as our ballot box indicates. Many are fraudulent votes that don’t get the attention they deserve.
This is another front where the Trump admin is failing. Trump is going soft and now even Homan is talking about productive meetings with Walz and Frey. What the heck? We have violent mobs in the streets, impeding law enforcement, attacking law enforcement, and who want to tear down America. The likes of Walz and Frey have been egging them on. It feels like dealing with Muslims spewing taqiyya during these “productive” meetings. I have no idea what has caused this shift in Trump, but he is failing and setting us up to lose bigly in upcoming elections. Force must be met with force. It’s BLM reduce all over again. Trump seems to have learned nothing.
Excellent and incisive article, Daniel. However, I ascribe to Steve Deace’s description, which I think is more accurate: “We are not a nation of laws, but a nation of political will – and will always be.”
Leftists make laws then they refuse to abide by the same laws like Gun Control and go around surrounded by armed bodyguards
Kudos to you, Mr. Greenfield … The best summation of the problem I’ve yet seen … ! Yours is the 30,000 foot level overview that proves America is in an existential moment that may very decide if there is a nation come November’s midterms, never mind 2028 and beyond … The ‘left’ screams about their precious democracy™ every day, but rule by leftist mob — exactly as you describe it — makes a mockey of the very idea of a ‘democracy’ of free citizens …
And those ginning up the Minneapolis rioters are akin to Hamas, thugs deploying their brain-dead minions as human shields to create favorable media coverage … What scares me is that it may be working …
The radical leftist Democrat party is the enemy within––the ideological and political enemy of the state. Leftism is Marxist dogma wrapped in an American flag, and the low-information young Americans who have embraced its anti-American American indoctrination in schools across the country are now old enough to vote😱 They are the products of the captured American educational industry, and they are functioning exactly as they are programmed to function. Children live what they learn. I just shake my head.