Dear Trump, Send In The Troops To Minneapolis Or Risk Losing The Country To Lawlessness

There is no time this time around for Trump 

to hem and haw around defiant Democrats. 

He must initiate a crackdown now.

The Federalist

Minneapolis might burn, again.

The spark threatening to ignite another round of flames, less than six years after parts of the Minnesota city were reduced to ashes in 2020, flew on Wednesday, January 7 when a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after she allegedly attempted to run over him with her vehicle.

Video footage appears to show Renee Nicole Good make contact with one agent as she ignored the calls of two other federal officers telling her to get out of the car. The contact prompted him to fire off three shots, with at at least one of the bullets striking through Good’s front windshield.

The fallout was fast and fierce. Less than 24 hours after the shooting, agitators who had spent the morning hovering over ICE operations, were assaulting law enforcement with projectiles and grabbing at federal agents’ weapons. Fears of a larger, more violent response mounted on Thursday morning.

Minneapolis Public Schools even canceled classes for the rest of the week due to “safety concerns,” a schedule change that will no doubt free up more Minneapolitans to join the impending chaos.

In his June 2020 op-ed that sent the New York Times newsroom into a spiral, Sen. Tom Cotton urged Trump to “send in the troops” and invoke the Insurrection Act to send in the military to the riot-plagued cities and states that refused to enforce the rule of law.

“These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives,” Cotton wrote.

Yet, it wasn’t until July, more than a month after George Floyd’s death and Cotton’s concerns were begrudgingly published, that the Trump administration finally deployed law enforcement to the cities rioters ravaged. Even then, Trump spent the following weeks repeatedly threatening to intervene in Antifa-overrun Portland if Mayor Ted Wheeler failed to “get control of his city and stop the Anarchists, Agitators, Rioters and Looters, causing great danger to innocent people.”

By the time a federal crackdown on the summer of rage commenced, the physical damages total reached the billions, and the cultural consequences were too great to count.

The country and president’s tolerance for left-wing lawlessness, after enduring years of violence, rowdy riots, hoaxes, lawfare, and assassination attempts, should be at all-time low. The only way to protect those Americans and the land they love from further rioting, looting, vandalism, and burning is to stop it before it starts.

There is no time this time around for Trump to hem and haw around defiant Democrats, many like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who spent the day of the car ramming inciting even more violence against ICE instead of demanding order and peace.

Already, the agitation machine is in motion. The same day Good was shot, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threatened to deploy the Minnesota National Guard against ICE, a literal act of anti-federal insurrection, under the guise of “protecting” Gopher State residents. In contrast, Walz refused in 2020 to invite the help of his state’s national guard, which he claimed consisted of “19 year-old cooks,” with the ongoing Floyd fallout Minneapolis.

If Trump does not act swiftly and forcefully, there is nothing stopping the same politicians, dark money groups, Big Tech companies, and big box corporations that endorsed, funded, and bailed out 2020 criminals over the actions of local law enforcement from doing the same thing mere days into 2026.

The communists who spent the last few days interfering in federal law enforcement operations and threatening the safety of ICE agents “have to be crushed, not coddled.” Failure to do so only opens the door for a mockery of rule of law — and Trump personally.

“We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!” Trump posted to Truth Social after reviewing clips of the attack on ICE on Wednesday.

Standing behind and protecting those boots already in the ground in Minnesota means sending in the troops to quell further violence against officers. It also means prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law anyone who attacks those officers or engages in the criminal desecration and destruction of American cities.

It’s too late for Trump to undo the damage that radical violent leftists did to our country in 2020. He does, however, have the opportunity from doing it again in 2026. He just has to take it.