I have been beating the drum, warning that this will be a long, hot summer for political violence.
The first real outburst came during winter in Minnesota, when it is anything but hot. I reasoned that, if people are willing to riot when it is well below freezing, riot season will be especially bad.
Not exactly genius logic, but I can hear the rhetoric, see that Democrats and leftists are getting more radical, and know that Democrats love violence during election season.
Most of the violence we have seen so far has been the result of social decay, which has accelerated since 2020. Teen takeovers, shootings at graduations, flash mobs.
I can't believe my eyes. Hundreds of Hamas supporters wearing Palestinian keffiyehs were chanting, “Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head.”
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 28, 2026
These are literally terrorists in America.pic.twitter.com/FpDrRXesNP
The political violence has been more sporadic and concentrated, but more is coming. Right now, it is New Jersey where the anti-ICE riots are concentrated.
...New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called the violent protest entirely "peaceful" in New Jersey yesterday and then blamed ICE for any violence. She also signed a law to criminalize the wearing of masks, as Democrats in Congress blocked funding for ICE on that basis. The video…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 29, 2026
As in Minnesota, Governor Sherrill is backing the rioters to the hilt and preventing local law enforcement from interfering with the rioters, whom she describes as "peaceful."
She wants the ICE agents to have a target on their backs, and the rioters are happy to put one there.
🚨 This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 28, 2026
ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER”
“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”
“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”
This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them pic.twitter.com/d36Iv8JpAj
Sherrill's position is that ICE is causing all this because they shouldn't be enforcing the law. It is the same logic of the Confederacy that the Democrats have adopted for laws and Constitutional provisions they dislike. Their position is that the Supremacy Clause applies whenever they want, and doesn't whenever they decide it shouldn't.
"What seems to really be inciting a lot of this is really the ICE agents. So, the ICE agents really need to stay out of there."
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) May 29, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill claims the violent ICE protests going on outside of an agency facility in Newark are "peaceful," accusing ICE agents of… pic.twitter.com/RbsNj4WZPM
The same people who scream "hate crime" when somebody does a donut on a pride flag in the streets will shrug and call terroristic threats against law enforcement "peaceful."
This is a crime under New Jersey’s terroristic threats law. But due to sanctuary policies, there are no local police there to make an arrest.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 28, 2026
It also may be a federal crime under 8 USC 115.
A line is crossed when you say you *will* do something, not just say you hope they die. https://t.co/wvfNmFMEDc
The violence is going to keep escalating, and Sherrill, like Walz, will blame the feds for the violence they are egging on. As Walz put it, they are "at war" with the federal government.
🚨 NOW: Antifa rioters are moving BLUNT FORCE OBJECTS including bricks, pavers, fence posts, and more into the direct vicinity of ICE Newark
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 29, 2026
It seems they’re preparing for some sort of direct action
We’re dangerously close to a full-on INSURRECTION this weekend
Pray for ICE🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tbJpSu9TU3
ICE, under Tom Homan, is doing as good a job as it can to contain the riots, but the experts in crowd control and the responsibility for maintaining order on local territory are local law enforcement.
They aren't doing their job, by design. That's the plan.
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