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To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” - no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.

these idiots absolutely do assume there will be a small and easily manageable number of weird blue haired college kid queer POC and hippie activists who will go against them: they don’t really know what to do with huge numbers of enraged respectable “normal” looking white people fighting them

Yes, MAGAs have been picking blue cities to target because they BELIEVE us urban Democrats actually are mostly virtue-signaling hypocrites who are secretly as racist as they are, and they’ll thus only face a bit of easily-destroyed resistance from weird blue-haired kids - we keep proving them wrong.

And yes, a lot of MAGAs (like Stephen Miller) genuinely and truly believe in the insane theory that all the protesters are paid by George Soros (or some other wealthy Jewish entity). They are clinging to this insane, wildly bigoted theory in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

imagine having control of the entire FBI and the power to really trace the money to find proof of this but nah

I wonder how much of the miscalculation has to do with Minneapolis having the largest Somali community in the nation, and the MAGAs just assumed normal (ie white) locals would be eager to be rid of them—when in fact Somali immigration has proven to be remarkably tension-free?

I’ve lived in Seattle for 34 years—the city with the 2nd or 3rd largest Somali community. My daughter’s elementary school was maybe 15% Somali. They’ve made excellent neighbors. Model immigrants. Don’t ever remember an incident or complaint.