Adam Kinzinger
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he cares about it more than a regular democratically elected person because it is key.
His facade of power is key for the fear because if he loses that facade โ and one way to lose the facade is public outcry.
You don't have as many people on your side as you think โ
And the ability of the local Minnesotans to have pushed back as hard as they did, as peacefully as they did, as kind of neighborly as they did, is absolutely incredible.
They went into these ICE operations.
They went into Minneapolis with the assumption that we would see the equivalent of George Floyd, you know, 2020.
And by the way, full disclosure, I got activated with the guard for the George Floyd riots.
I was flying overhead in Minneapolis and it was very violent.
Half of the city felt like it was burning.
This is something completely different.
And they wanted to provoke this.
And the discipline that freedom loving Americans have shown in this, I think has been incredible.
And I think we need to take a victory lap here.
Now, inevitably, this operation would have ended right at some point.
But it ends when they lose their talking point value on Fox News.
The whole reason there was an ICE surge to Minneapolis was because of the Somali issue.
And they wanted to go on Fox News and stir up that fraud issue and then say, we're reacting by sending ICE.
And it was really going to give the feel goodsies to everybody on Fox News.
And they failed at that.
And they lost the value of that.