Experts are warning that the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war.
Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) conducted a tabletop exercise in October 2024 that simulated potential outcomes if a US president were to carry out law enforcement operations similar to the ones being conducted by the Trump administration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota.
“In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s National Guard,” Finkelstein explained. “When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces.”
i’ve been reflecting on this for a couple hours trying to gather my thoughts and find where it is i’m failing. so let’s go through what we’ve been through to get here
in all of this, we have continued to get killed. now the only pretext our killers need is that they want to kill us. and so we’re falling into a civil war because we’ve exhausted everything else.
and still, across lemmy i get told to either fight my police directly, or someone like me tells me that fighting the police is not the only option.
the only conclusion i can reach is a lot of people who don’t know what we’re going through feel real confident they know better than me what’s going on