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’m pretty sure that’s actually the point.
They want violence so they can justify themselves. Because if it ever gets to the point where these monsters are in front of a judge they’re going to need some justification or they’re going to have a bad time. They knew this, or at least some of them know this, and therefore are trying to manufacture consent.
This is blindingly obvious. Everything this administration do is basic, they have the political strategies of a toddler who is having a tantrum because he’s not being allowed to drink bleach. In trump’s case, literally.