The undercurrent of the Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis is the stipulation in the Constitution that law and order is built around maintaining human dignity and protecting human rights, not on brute force and power. In the ICE raids ordered by Tom Homan and Kristi Noem, due process in the court of law is replaced with Palantir algorithms identifying non-White immigrants targeted for arrest and deportation. This arises from Donald Trump’s promotion of White nationalism and embrace of the violence he pardoned in the January 6th attack on the Capitol. His Art of the Deal and The Apprentice are manuals of manipulation for personal gain, the skills with which he built his portfolio of wealth, privilege, and power. In his second Presidency, this wealth has ballooned “beyond anything ever seen before, never” in American politics, and his ambition has grown into disrupting the global political-economic order and forcing it into a megalomaniacal vision of himself orchestrating, god-like from on high. His deepest fear is being seen as a loser in any aspect of life. All opposition is met with vengeance. Psychoanalytically, this is certifiable sociopathy. The danger in America moving forward after Trump is the degree to which this fixation on holding and wielding power is ingrained in our cultural ethos, One sees it smoldering in the eyes of his enablers. The exploitation of human and natural resources has been here since the first immigrant arrivals, the establishment of slavery, and the “settling” of the continent. Donald Trump today need be seen as a breakthrough revelation of the extremes to which it can rise. Overall, this is a hard lesson for America and for all humanity. 

RP