Scott Jennings Nails It: Democrats Radicalized Their Base — and Minneapolis Is Paying the Price

Amy Curtis 

"Everything that we see happening in Minneapolis, including yesterday and going forward, is the direct result of Democrats radicalizing their voter base for the better part of a decade. . . an authoritarian threat to democracy, and an existential threat to our freedoms."

What happens when a political party spends a YEAR radicalizing their base against ICE agents with increasingly unhinged rhetoric?
Tragically, I fear we're learning exactly what happens right now in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/FHTqJbGFaK

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 8, 2026

fighting and disagreements aside, it's terrible. You don't want people to die in law enforcement situations or otherwise."

" 'But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now. Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis but all over the country, in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?" Jennings asked.

" 'This is not an isolated incident. We have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents all over the country. According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE agents around," Jennings continued." Why are people believing they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation and that is an appropriate thing to do?"

" 'I understand they don't like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law," Jennings said. "But that's not how we change laws in the country. If you don't like a law, you talk with the politicians. You don't drive your car into the middle of a building or a law enforcement situation that's being occupied by the people who are simply there to enforce the law."

" 'If I don't like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes, I don't drive my car into the Treasury Department to try and run somebody over," Jennings added. "I call my Congressman. Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to 'put your bodies on the line' and Tim Walz calling these guys Gestapo all year. What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people about this?"

"Jennings is right, of course, which is why Democrats like Peggy Flanagan, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and Zohran Mamdani have decided to blame ICE for this shooting, calling it a "murder" and continuing to fanning the flames of unrest." . . .