The New Yorker:

After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.

By Susan B. Glasser

Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, says that what’s happening in Minneapolis today—with thousands of armed, masked federal agents terrorizing the community in the name of cracking down on illegal immigrants—is both a “moral abomination” and a “moment of truth for the United States of America.” In the wake of the tragic killings, earlier this month, of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the Maryland Democrat and constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin praises Minnesotans’ “heroic resistance” and “non-stop creative organizing” as not only the right response to the Trump Administration’s excesses but “a template for national popular victory against the autocrats and authoritarians.”

Speaking out on Thursday, the two members of Congress reflected a national Democratic leadership that—finally, belatedly—seems to have found its collective voice in responding to what Donald Trump has unleashed on America since returning to office a year ago. Some of the President’s most fervent opponents now believe, as the never-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes wrote on Thursday morning, that the recent news out of Minnesota marked a breaking point for “patriotic, non-political normies.” Reflecting a political environment that simply did not exist a week ago in Washington, on Thursday a united Senate Democratic caucus refused to vote for a government funding bill before a Friday deadline, because it includes money for the out-of-control immigration agencies that operate within the Department of Homeland Security. On the ground in Minnesota, meanwhile, Trump’s border czar, Thomas Homan, announced that he had arrived to dial down the temperature. “President Trump wants this fixed, and I’m going to fix it,” he said.

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