As we have seen previously, the media is in bed with people who are trying to overthrow our government. A narrative is being painted that the current government is the worst government in the history of the planet. This administration is supposedly engaging in human rights abuses that are worse than the Nazis, or Pal Pot or Red China.
Nothing could be further from the truth. What we are seeing in Minneapolis and elsewhere is a guerrilla insurrection clothed in the pious term of activism. It is something that we have spent decades trying to keep out of our country.
General Michael Flynn has weighed in with his own insights.
What is unfolding in Minneapolis is not spontaneous unrest, and it is not about social grievances. It is a disciplined political operation following a playbook that has been publicly available for decades. The tactics being employed align closely with the organizing doctrine articulated by Saul Alinsky, which relies on pressure, ridicule, narrative inversion, and institutional coercion to extract concessions from power centers without ever engaging the stated issue itself. Alinsky was explicit that the issue is never the issue. The issue is power…
The sequence is familiar. A triggering incident occurs. Facts are declared settled before investigations begin. Emotional framing replaces evidence.
Let’s take a look at one of the two deaths in Minneapolis. Renee Good is depicted as a mother who had just dropped her son off at school. She stopped to support her neighbors and was ruthlessly gunned down by trigger-happy agents who like to terrorize American citizens. The people who are funding this operation who have preferred if she was black since that would have allowed them to cry racism.
I would call this the George Floyd treatment. The canonization of Good started almost immediately after the shooting.
General Flynn:
Institutions are pushed to violate their own rules in the name of compassion. When they comply, the violation becomes the precedent. When they resist, ridicule and escalation follow. The objective is leverage, and every concession extracted becomes proof of concept for the next demand. Each display of restraint by authorities is interpreted not as good faith but as weakness to be exploited. Compromise accelerates conflict rather than resolves it.
Fortunately for the country, there were an incredible number of videos that were available providing multiple angles of the incident.
What were the facts? Good had received training from an organization in how to impede ICE. Good was obstructing an active ICE operation which is a felony. Good was blocking traffic by using her vehicle turned perpendicular to the roadway. Good ignored an agent’s command to exit her vehicle. Good gunned the engine while an agent was directly in front of her. The only reason the agent was not run over was that the wheels slipped on the icy road. However, the agent was rammed by her vehicle.
General Flynn:
The White House and federal leadership should understand this clearly. What is being tested is not immigration policy or law enforcement conduct in isolation. What is being tested is whether institutions can be forced, through narrative pressure and moral intimidation, to abandon their own standards in real time. If they can, the tactic will be repeated elsewhere. If it works once, it becomes doctrine. The actors driving escalation are not trying to win an argument. They are trying to condition behavior. The measure of success is institutional submission.
Minneapolis matters because it is being treated as a demonstration site. What happens here will be replicated nationally if it proves effective. That reality should be acknowledged without illusion or emotional manipulation. The situation is not going to be resolved through appeasement, and it was never intended to be.
The actors driving this escalation of violence apparently are not happy. The reason I say that is that a story was released about the death of a nine-year-old girl while in ICE custody. This story was designed to increase the outrage being directed at ICE and their lack of humanity. The girl was not given adequate medical treatment for a congenital heart condition.
It turns out the story is true. The problem with the story which was quickly uncovered is that this took place more than two years ago during the last administration. It has nothing to do with current ICE enforcement actions. However, it serves to escalate the “moral outrage” of people who have been fed a steady diet of lies.
General Flynn:
We saw this playbook deployed successfully against local police departments after 2020. Single incidents were elevated into national moral crises before facts were established. Media narratives hardened instantly. Elected officials, facing coordinated pressure and public shaming, moved not to restore order but to distance themselves from their own institutions. Funding was cut, authority was restricted, proactive enforcement was rebranded as provocation, and officers were left politically exposed. …
What is different now is the level at which the tactic is being applied. The same pressure sequence is being pushed upward, from municipal police departments to the federal government itself, and specifically against immigration enforcement. In Minnesota, federal agents are now operating under sustained political, legal, and narrative assault from state officials, activist networks, and national media simultaneously. …
What is happening instead is the deliberate use of crisis politics to make enforcement itself untenable. When every operation carries the risk of immediate political backlash, litigation, and reputational destruction, enforcement becomes optional in practice, even if it remains legal on paper. This is how the law is nullified without repeal. …
The lesson here is clear. Any stepping back from enforcement will only invite these tactics to be used elsewhere. Tom Homan has made it clear what the mission is and that the mission continues.
Either we have a nation of laws that are enforced on everyone or we lose our country.
General Flynn:
The most dangerous mistake now is pretending we are still operating inside a shared ethical framework. We are not. One side increasingly treats politics as a zero-sum struggle over legitimacy itself, where opponents are not fellow citizens but obstacles. Understanding that reality is not extremism. It is situational awareness. Without it, moral confusion becomes the most effective weapon on the field. Minneapolis has revealed that weakness, and until it is recognized and addressed, the United States will continue to cede ground to those who understand the rules of the game far better than those entrusted to enforce them.