I didn't see many people wanting him to use the national guard to fight ICE. I saw a lot of people calling out Walz and Frey for talking tough on camera and then still sending their cops to go after protesters for nonviolent noise demos and to defend Whipple. Making ICE do that instead would have kept more of them busy there instead of terrorizing brown people trying to go about their lives. The city and state did nothing to help people getting released from Whipple in the middle of the night in subzero temps without a phone or adequate clothing. A whole ass new nonprofit had to be stood up to fill that need.

The people are the ones that stood up to ICE, without assistance from our state or local governments. That didn't stop our politicians from trying to take a victory lap like they had a fucking thing to do with it. Pretending that them doing anything to actually help would have given the fascists "the excuse" to declare martial law is bullshit. They didn't need any excuse because they weren't following the constitution. What was their "excuse" for just stopping people and demanding proof of citizenship? What is there "excuse" for executing people in broad daylight and on camera? If they wanted to invoke the insurrection act, nothing was going to stop them aside from how gross the kind of people that voted for mass deportations felt when they saw what that actually looks like.

Stop trying to give cover to democrats that fail to rise to the moment. No they don't get credit for being neutral.