Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

Adam Serwer: “I don’t know what the feds expected when they surged into Minnesota…” “Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about. Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of ‘the resistance’—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.” “Instead, w…

Minnesotans Proved MAGA Wrong About Loving Your Neighbor

I got up this morning, formulating what I could say in a love letter to the people of Minneapolis. But I came across this Atlantic piece by Adam Serwer, who says it so much better than I could. Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between …

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong. “Activists have made the decisi...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong. “Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents.”