The Democrat Confederacy of Dunces

Some Democrats are apparently looking to pull off a big Civil War reenactment to the detriment of the whole country.

On Monday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted the Trump administration’s call to send National Guard troops to Illinois.

Pritzker’s thread on X announcing that he would resist federal authorities sounded like a message in a bottle from 1860. The Democrat governor blasted Trump’s deployment of federal troops to blue states like Illinois and Oregon to enforce federal law, saying that no “officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.”

Pritzker then wrote that Trump’s lawful calling out of the National Guard amounted to “Trump’s Invasion.”

Finally, he demanded that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whose National Guard troops are to be sent to Illinois, join in the rebellion and refuse to cooperate with the federal government.

The Illinois governor finally wrote that “there is no reason a president should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, clearly getting in on the message, decided to let out his own rebel yell on X.

“STATES CANNOT INVADE ONE ANOTHER,” he wrote. “This is so simple — so fundamental to America — I cannot believe I have to type those words.”

Well, when federal law is being violated and federal personnel and property are under threat, the government certainly can send the National Guard from one state to another. If Newsom doesn’t want Texas troops marching through California, then he shouldn’t want his state doing literally exactly what triggered the Civil War.

President Donald Trump absolutely has the authority and the duty to carry out federal law. As we’ve seen in cities like Portland and Chicago, there are now Democrat-run jurisdictions that not only won’t cooperate with federal authorities in upholding the law, but they are also outright putting up impediments to doing so.

Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office has been inundated by Antifa-allied leftist agitators for months. They’ve caused mayhem, they’ve attacked journalists, they’ve demonstrated a flagrant disregard for the law, and it seems local authorities won’t do a thing about it other than complain that the Trump administration is enforcing immigration laws and causing disruptions.

It reminds me of how before the Civil War pro-abolition newspapers and journalists were attacked in pro-slavery states and those states did nothing about it. It was these incidents that prompted Abraham Lincoln to deliver his famed Lyceum Address, which brilliantly decries “mob rule” as a threat to free government.

Right now, Portland has mob rule. And Chicago is close to it. The city, under the direction of leftist Mayor Brandon Johnson, has made ICE operations extremely difficult if not impossible to carry out.

There are daily “protests” at the ICE office in the Chicago suburb of Broadview that have turned violent. Five people have been arrested and charged with battery on a police officer.

On Saturday, Border Patrol agents in the area “were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” according to the Department of Homeland Security. The agents shot one woman who was allegedly brandishing a firearm during the confrontation.

In the Chicago police dispatch audio recording released by the New York Post one of the dispatchers can be heard saying, “Per the chief of patrol: Clear everybody out, we’re not responding over there.”

The Chicago Police Department insisted that they sent officers to the scene, but the dispatcher’s line demonstrates that at the very least police officers have been given mixed messages about whether they are allowed to come to the aid of federal authorities.

The Chicago mayor certainly added to the perception that the city is in full insurrection mode.

He’s declared that parts of the Chicago will be “ICE free zones.”

“Today, we are signing an executive order aimed at reining in this out-of-control administration,” Johnson said to reporters on Monday. “The order establishes ICE-free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.”

Without even a bit of irony, Johnson then said that “the right wing of this country wants a rematch of the Civil War.”

If any party is flirting with a “rematch” of the Civil War, it’s modern Democrats following their very old playbook. They aren’t just defending federalism, which they’ve asserted most of my life is a relic of slavery or some such nonsense, they’ve actually gone past that.

As Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote on X, Johnson was taking direct aim at the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Right now, what Democrats are doing is playing out as absurd theater. Appropriate given that they are a party of theater kids.

Nevertheless, these calls to resist the federal government are the height of irresponsibility. They seem insistent on plunging this country into chaos if they don’t get their way on immigration.

The Left spent the last decade relitigating slavery and the Civil War, but it seems they learned nothing at all from it.

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