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Adam Kinzinger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1915 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And he cares about it more than a regular democratically elected person because it is key.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

You don't have as many people on your side as you think โ€“

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

They went into these ICE operations.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

They went into Minneapolis with the assumption that we would see the equivalent of George Floyd, you know, 2020.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And by the way, full disclosure, I got activated with the guard for the George Floyd riots.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

I was flying overhead in Minneapolis and it was very violent.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

Half of the city felt like it was burning.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

This is something completely different.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And they wanted to provoke this.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And the discipline that freedom loving Americans have shown in this, I think has been incredible.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And I think we need to take a victory lap here.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

Now, inevitably, this operation would have ended right at some point.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

But it ends when they lose their talking point value on Fox News.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

The whole reason there was an ICE surge to Minneapolis was because of the Somali issue.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And they wanted to go on Fox News and stir up that fraud issue and then say, we're reacting by sending ICE.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And it was really going to give the feel goodsies to everybody on Fox News.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And they failed at that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won

And they lost the value of that.