Drew Hernandez
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He threatened to call up Minnesota troops to fight the federal government.
I mean, this is as clear an insurrection as there is.
There is, though, you know, just to give a little grace to these guys, including Bovino, there are a lot of clips going around from Minneapolis of the protesters, the agitators arguing and saying, you know, you're just rounding people up, you know, indiscriminately.
And you'll have the ICE officers say, we are targeting this guy, you know, this guy who's wanted for domestic violence, this guy who's got, you know, a felony or a misdemeanor or whatever.
And so I actually do think that these raids are clearly quite targeted.
It's not like they're just showing up to Home Depot, though they would be justified in doing that as well.
So, yes, there has been a PR failure.
There's no question about that.
I think we all have to grant, though, there was always going to be some kind of PR failure.
It was always going to be very difficult.
And it's always Minneapolis.
You know, it's always Minneapolis.
It seems to be only Minneapolis.
And so when you look at that, look, this is clearly they're trying to do a repeat of the summer of love, albeit, thankfully, to Matt's point in the winter, which makes it better for us.
But they're trying to do that.
It worked for them last time.
If Trump scales back now, he will have taken every wrong lesson out of the Summer of Love.
So you've got to keep the pressure up.
But it looks to me like this is a political operation.
And then you get all these reports that the lieutenant governor of Minnesota was allegedly in the signal chats helping to direct some of this stuff.