In a must-read essay, Adam Serwer puts his finger on why courageous people in Minnesota have been able to force the Trump regime to backtrack:

"The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. ...

Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about."


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theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/

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