Posted on 02/01/2025 4:50:30 AM PST by Libloather
The Resistance may seem a thin shadow of what it was during Donald Trump’s first term — but it still has beaucoup horsepower, which leaves ambitious Dem politicos jockeying for place ahead of 2026 and 2028 stuck trying to thread the needle on the border crisis.
Like Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, facing a re-election fight in 2026 and hungrily eyeing the White House after that.
The bumptious billionaire has already done incalculable damage to his state via woke policies.
And he ain’t stopping now!
Pritzker recently offered a Kafka-esque defense of his plan to simply ignore federal law and refuse to comply with some of the president’s deportation efforts.
There’s “a law in the books in Illinois that says that our local law enforcement will stand up for those law-abiding undocumented people in our state,” said J.B.
Huh? “Law-abiding” illegal immigrants? There’s no such thing: They came here illegally.
On the other hand, the hotel heir is now firmly in favor of kicking out “asylum seekers” who commit “other” crimes.
But Pritzker is far from the only state executive playing cynical power politics around immigration to buff up electability cred.
Mass. Gov. Maura Healey, the wokest of the woke on the East Coast (and that’s saying something), also faces a possible ’26 contest.
She’s outlined a self-contradictory approach similar to Pritzker’s, saying in the fall, “I still remain opposed on efforts to target large swaths of an undocumented population who’ve done nothing wrong other than they’re here without lawful presence.”
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Gavin Newsom. He's still the Governor in California but everyone knows he's a 🤡.
IMO-—HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED
A majority of illegals move to large democrat cities, go on welfare and work 'under the table for cash - taking money AND jobs from Americans.
If democrats want to stand with illegals they're nuts.
Same with me.
When you read 8 U.S. Code § 1324-actually read it-you realize it is clear, unambiguous, legally passed via a legislative process, and completely within the confines of a Constitutionally delineated process.
I can see you are of like mind: We are a Republic, which is the rule of law agreed on as the result of a legislative process, not direct direct rule based on the whims of men, which is an oligarchy.
If we have a stark, black and white, legally passed item of legislation that is openly ignored, when it is not openly flaunted by non-compliance, then...we don’t have a Republic.
And of that is the case, we are done as a nation, because if we are an oligarchy, that will always descend into tyranny if an oligarchy is not a form of tyranny right out of the gate.
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