January 21, 2026

THE DEMOCRATS’ SHOCK TROOPS WITHOUT UNIFORMS:

Federal agents who are doing nothing more than carrying out our immigration laws are being verbally and physically assaulted in blue states, Minnesota and California in particular. Don’t try to convince us these are organic protests with only the purest of intentions.

It’s a generously funded insurgency inflamed by the Democrats, cynics who see a political opportunity to create havoc. The combatants are not in uniform, but they serve the same purpose as shock troops who are on the front lines of a revolution before the occupation forces move in.

Confrontations between ICE agents and protesters have been common for nearly a year. We’ll stipulate that some are simply demonstrating peacefully. But many are there to obstruct, and some of them have violence on their minds. We’ve seen the toxic brew result in at least one death — for now.

It’s foolish to think there won’t be more. There’s a lust for blood. Just this past weekend, a horde attacked a counterprotester in Minneapolis, reportedly whacking him in the head with a flagpole and chasing him as if he were prey. Videos show a man whose life is being threatened. He was bloodied because of his opinions.

Another man was harassed in Minneapolis by an anti-ICE crowd, apparently for having offended the rabble by wearing an American flag hoodie with the word “Freedom” on it. “Take it off and you won’t get hurt!,” his tormenters told him.

This is only a sampling of recent events over the course of a much longer reign of terror.

Which all seems so odd, considering that in 2016, CNN cheerfully went on a ride-along with ICE, and the prior year, Obama awarded Tom Homan “the Presidential Rank Award [which] is bestowed each year by the President upon a small group of career employees and is the nation’s highest civil service award.”

 

Since we mentioned Jerry Seinfeld earlier today, here’s his “rooting for laundry” riff on pro sports in the era of free agency, which applies even more so to the left when someone changes party allegiance:

But then, the left is always rioting about something: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll