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Anti-ICE protestors outside of the DHS/ICE headquarters in Minneapolis on Jan. 17, 2026 (Fibonacci Blue/CC-BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons)
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
Those of you taking a holiday from the depressing grind of current events over the three-day weekend may not have seen this latest escalation in the Hard Left’s hypokinetic war against Normal America — namely, that the professional “activists” got word a pastor at a Minneapolis church was employed by ICE and as a result it was within the bounds of decent behavior to rush into Sunday services and stage a takeover.This wasn’t a “violent” attack, per se, though it’s pretty clear what the implications were.
It’s a more disorganized, and certainly more pathetic, version of the mafia sending Vito and Rocco to a recalcitrant merchant not paying his protection money. No legs were broken, but the day’s peace certainly was, and the message was unmistakable. …
