Obviously this is an ethical and legal disaster. But it would have also been a political disaster. Trump didn’t draw down in MN after Alex Pretti was killed out of kindness, but because MN was becoming a national political crisis and beginning to crack the GOP.
Vance is a monster AND a fool.
Will Stancil
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."
