Hatred Brought Us to a Place the Haters Don’t Care For

American Thinker 

My wife and I have a close family friend who lives in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN. I’ll call her Jane. She is a real person, but “Jane” is not her real name.

Jane is a hard-working, big-hearted woman who has never intended to hurt anyone. She is the type of person who calls on your birthday, comforts you when tragedy strikes, or takes you to the doctor when you’re under the weather. She is the friend that every person should be blessed with. We are grateful to have her in our lives, despite her one glaring fault -- an all-consuming hatred for Donald J. Trump. It is a hatred that far exceeds mere derangement.

For Jane politics isn’t the business of rational choices. It is a war of emotional expression. While Jane is vehemently opposed to illegal immigration, she is highly offended by the Trump administration’s tactics in her community. She recently posted on Facebook:

This is not the America I grew up in. And I'm beyond pissed. Now I hear Trump is threatening the insurrection act in Minnesota… does that mean war on the citizens of Minnesota? Shoot now ask questions later… Untrained ICE is (sic) indiscriminately and, might I add illegally, snatching people off the streets and pulling them out of their cars. Just because the color of their skin, sexual orientation, or for confronting them for an injustice being perpetrated on their community!! …Even Native Americans are being picked up and held in custody as illegal immigrants!!! WTF!!!

I can almost hear her keyboard pleading for mercy as Jane hammered out that posting. It drips with hatred for Donald Trump. She considers his actions an afront to civilization, even though he is only fulfilling his oath of office.

I can tell that Jane’s disdain for President Trump is a hormonal rather than intellectual. Her response to Presidents depends a great deal on whether they have “D” or an “R” behind their name.

Bill Clinton used a heavily armed SWAT raid to detain and deport Elián González, a six-year-old Cuban boy. Jane wasn’t “beyond pissed.” She didn’t care at all.

Barack Obama murdered an entire wedding party with a drone strike. Jane didn’t call him a war criminal. She adored him.

Joe Biden trafficked over 300,000 children into slavery and prostitution. Jane didn’t join a mob blowing whistles in protest. She voted for the woman who said she wouldn’t have done anything differently.

Donald Trump is enforcing laws passed by our duly-elected representatives. Jane is filled with rage that he as the temerity to do his constitutional duty, and is committed to making his job as difficult as possible.

Could ICE operations be conducted with better optics than what we are currently experiencing? Of course, but only in a world other than the one created by Jane and her fellow Democrats. Just imagine what border security would look like had she and her fellow travelers made different electoral choices over the past couple of decades.

In a perfect world, our leaders would discourage illegal immigration and keep the borders sealed. Illegal immigration would be a relatively small problem -- requiring only a tiny ICE presence. But Joe Biden threw the gates open and invited the world’s worst to come and live on the backs of taxpayers. Now it’s a crisis, requiring drastic measures.

In a perfect world, illegals arrested for violent crimes would be quietly turned over to ICE by local authorities. There would be no need for neighborhood raids. But officials like Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan implemented sanctuary practices instead. Rather than handing rapists, murderers, thugs, and thieves over to ICE, they sneak them in through the back door to prey on otherwise peaceful communities. Now ICE is forced to go into Jane’s community to dig out the worst of the worst.

In a perfect world, protesters would march peacefully, carry signs, make media appearances, and lobby their congressmen. In America today the resistance stalks ICE agents, blocks roadways, interferes with law enforcement, vandalizes property, and even conducts armed ambushes -- all with the encouragement of Democrat politicians. Their behavior has cost them their moral authority and made incidents like the Renee Good shooting inevitable.

In a perfect world, local police would come to the aid of ICE when confronted with unruly mobs. There would be no need for ICE to gun up, mask up, and travel in tactical squads. They could make arrests in a quiet orderly fashion, knowing that their brethren in blue would “have their backs.” But officials like Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey and Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal have pledged to arrest ICE agents rather than protect them. Now mobs confront law enforcement with impunity, while they struggle to perform their constitutional duties. In Jane’s community, mobs have even begun harassing private citizens whom they suspect might be ICE agents. Is that the fault of Donald Trump also?

In a perfect world, those opposed to border enforcement, would lobby their representatives in Washington to change immigration laws. But in our world, they show disdain for the elected choices of the majority by disrupting civil order and impeding the enforcement of our laws.

Jane is furious -- as are we. She went into the voting booth and wished for all of this, without considering what the reality would look like. I’m sure having her nose rubbed in a putrid mess of her own making, only adds to her rage. But that’s on her, not on those of us who voted to clean up the mess her beloved Democrats created.

There’s little others can do for Jane’s well being. Dialog isn’t an ineffective treatment for hatred. My wife and I intend to keep loving her, and pray that she eventually finds her way out of the darkness that consumes her. But that will be up to her.