Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis into Fort Sumter

Article subtitle: 
History is repeating
Article date: 
29 January 2026
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National News
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Here are several articles on the insurrection in Minnesota.

Trump Has Failed His Nullification Crisis. Other States Will Follow Minnesota's Example, by Hayden Daniel, The Federalist, 28 January 2026:

Rather than stand firm, crush the blatant insurrection against federal authority in Minnesota, and emulate his hero Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump blinked...

Federal agents will begin to leave Minneapolis... and Minnesota authorities still refuse to cooperate with federal agents to uphold the constitutionally valid immigration laws of this country. It seems that...Trump lost his spine and decided to cave to the unfolding chaos in Minneapolis as well as the Democrats who engineered it...

He has signaled that Democrats can defy federal law any time they want and foment violent opposition in the streets to its enforcement by federal agents, and for their trouble, they'll get a deal from the president...

Trump's apparent capitulation stands in stark contrast to Andrew Jackson's stern resoluteness during the Nullification Crisis of 1832, in which a single state defiantly flouted federal law until it was cowed by shrewd politicking and the threat of federal force...

You can't have a federalist union if every state gets to pick and choose which federal laws it has to follow...

We now stand at an inflection point for the country as dangerous as the secession crisis of 1860. Then, President James Buchanan's indecisiveness led the country into a catastrophic civil war...

 

Democrats Turn Minneapolis into Fort Sumter, by J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, 29 January 2026:

Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government.

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz have identified tens of billions of dollars in welfare fraud flowing through the Democrat-controlled state of Minnesota.

The public is slowly learning that members of the state's substantial population of Somali immigrants have been abusing state and federal programs to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers...

The idea that immigrants from across the world could arrive in Minnesota and figure out how to manipulate the existing bureaucracy to orchestrate large-scale fraud is unconvincing... We are looking at a government-orchestrated criminal syndicate...

...objective Americans watching these events unfold from afar see what looks like a Minnesota-engineered rebellion against the U.S. federal government...

Democrat politicians and staffers are allegedly coordinating anti-ICE resistance in real time...

Whether Democrat Party officials are backing an insurgent force on the streets of Minneapolis to distract from their own complicity in a multi-billion-dollar fraud operation, we don't yet know. But Democrats do appear to believe that Minnesota can ignore federal law and threaten federal agents with impunity. That smacks of rebellion and secession and cannot be permitted.

 

Slouching Towards Fort Sumter? by Victor Davis Hanson, American greatness, 29 January 2026:

Minnesota's defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre–Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion...

But after Fort Sumter [April 12, 1861], Lincoln... gained a consensus that the Constitution had no clauses about any lawful departure from the union...

Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government...

So for the Minnesota state officials, screaming for ICE "to get the f**k out of Minnesota"... is a reminder that the Democratic Party wants a safe place for illegal immigration, the fuel of a future dependent constituency - as the architecture of the recent massive Somali frauds attests...

They also believe that the more turmoil, the more violence, the more resistance, and the more a general sense of chaos and unrest swirl around the Trump administration, the more they can drive down its popularity before the midterms...

For now, Walz, Frey, and Ellison are... talking openly about how best to nullify federal law and impede federal enforcement...

... they have little idea they are following the Confederate script to the letter...

 

The Only Way Through Is Through, by Kurt Schlichter, Townhall, 28 January 2026:

...We were facing the loss of our country - permanent oppression of us patriotic normal, perpetual economic malaise, gender deviance enshrined in law, mass crime, rampant fraud by NGOs and imported Third World hustlers, anti-white racism as government policy, and international disrespect by every commie/jihadist/just plain scuzzy potentate around the globe. They had decades to set up their defenses, and now Trump is one year into tearing them down with three to go...

Their offers to negotiate are in bad faith – which Trump knows – he is not going to get rolled by Governor Flouncy Le Femme...

We can win. We can take back our country – that was the whole point of the Trump movement... Understand that our enemies hate that notion with a visceral fury... They are fighting precisely because they do not want America to be great...

This is a multi-front campaign, from remaking the military to resetting the broken international trade system to uprooting the DEI cancer that has metastasized through society to tossing out the millions of Third World invaders whom they were counting on to fix America's demographic problem...

Freedom, faith, and The Flag naturally draw enemies. Leftism will always be there as long as some humans are weak, stupid, jealous, and sexually inadequate...

Don't let up on the pressure to perform, but recognize our achievements – a real military, Iran emasculated, kids not being emasculated, illegal aliens being punted through the goal posts of America. We are going to be fighting forever, but we can win...

 

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
- Thomas Jefferson