THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT WILL FAIL WITHOUT GOP ACTION

The Texas National Guard is in Illinois. Why? We know, they know, you know there is no crisis in Chicago that makes it necessary for the Trump administration to send in National Guard troops. Any instability in Chicago has been caused by the surge of federal agents into the city, where they shot and killed Chicago resident Silverio Villegas González; raided and ransacked an apartment building, leaving residents—including U.S. citizens and children—bound outside for hours; shot an unarmed woman, Marimar Martinez; and aimed a weapon at a resident who was simply recording what the agent was doing. In each case, the government initially insisted the federal agents either were under attack or were rounding up “the worst of the worst,” but subsequent information has showed the federal agents were the aggressors in each situation. In fact, before Trump ordered troops into the city, federal agents described the small protests at the ICE facility as “low energy,” consisting of people standing in front of vehicles, raising a middle finger, and playing loud music. Federal agents have held journalists, who are now suing ICE and DHS for the use of “extreme force” against them, and pummeled them with tear gas and pepper spray. Local police chief Thomas Mills has testified that the “use of chemical agents by federal agents at the ICE facility in Broadview has often been arbitrary and indiscriminate. At times it is used when the crowd is as small as ten people.” We see what is happening. The Trump administration is deliberately trying to cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send military troops to blue cities. Before the 2026 election. Trump-whisperer Stephen Miller is reportedly having increasingly serious conversations about having Trump invoke the act. Are you really willing to have this destruction to America happen on your watch? Because it is happening. The time for discounting the reality that is playing out is long gone. The GOP Congress needs to do their jobs. Work for the country you took an oath to. And if you really believe that everything that is happening is good and right and normal, then we are already a failed experiment in democracy. And it happened so very quickly.