Posted on 10/25/2025 11:13:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The headlines say federal troops are coming to Illinois. ICE is calling for National Guard protection. Governor J.B. Pritzker is howling about federal overreach, while the media frames it as another Trump stunt.
But let’s be clear: the issue at hand is much larger than safeguarding ICE personnel.
This is power politics, pure and simple.
Let me explain: urban areas like Chicago are mini-states with single-party rule under Democrats; Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor in nearly a hundred years. The urban areas are then power bases for Democrats to have undue influence over the rest of a given state. Illinois is actually quite red were it not for Chicago and Cook County. Think about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Were it not for those two cities, Pennsylvania would essentially be North Alabama, solid red every Presidential election.
What Democrats do with their unchecked power is then create a system that perpetuates their power: bureaucracies, NGOs, etc., that are not about solving the problems of, say, homelessness or poor education or illegal immigration (far from it on that last issue). No: it’s about using taxpayer dollars to empower themselves and never solve any problems.
It’s their business model that then leads to perpetual political power.
But what happens if someone breaks Democrats’ business model in urban areas? What if Trump shows those who reside there that there is a better way? That there can be safety and security in communities, that there is real hope for the future? The Democrats’, and by extension Leviathan’s, power is significantly undermined.
That’s why there is such a visceral reaction with Progressive Democrats unleashing their Brownshirt Anitfa-types to enact political violence in the streets and stop the enforcement of federal immigration law. This is all very existential for Democrats.
Guarding Against Political Violence
Think about it: every time ICE agents carry out...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanleviathan.com ...
...and the left-wing media in this country helps them along.
Several states are calling for violent resistance to ICE, Marshals and Border Patrol.
Attacks on Feds and their building are the precise thing that started the Civil War.
Oregon has an excuse, most atheist, most mental illness.
Probably the worst part is that they have True Believer voters who feel that this is not only normal, but the way it should be. 40,000 + murders in Chicago over the last 60 years, and it’s okay.
Fort Sumter 2.0
Do you mean to tell me that for a century Chicago has been under the control of the Party of Slavery and the Ku Klux Klan!?!!!
No wonder it's a cesspool!
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