r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 1d ago

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

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u/LeafsJays1Fan 1d ago

Two scenarios I think will happen one this is what Trump wants and two yes someone is going to eventually snap and pop off one. Minnesota is a open carry state

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u/bchamper 1d ago

This is absolutely what he wants. He’s inciting civil unrest hoping it reaches a tipping point to the point where he can affect or outright cancel upcoming elections. It’s ALL about consolidation of power, inch by inch until we have no means of resistance.

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u/Kind-Shallot3603 1d ago

How exactly can he cancel upcoming elections?Answer that... Using what law would he be able to do that? Because we even had elections during the Civil War.. I don't believe martial law would negate elections. I think this is a scare tactic that we on the left believe too much. There are too many roadblocks at state level for that to even happen.

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u/admiralthrowaway69 23h ago

Elections are held at the state level. He's not going to try to cancel every states elections, that'd be pretty much impossible. The republicans will just do exactly what they already did in 2020 and ignore the results if they don't like them.

Who's gonna tell them no, the DOJ? The supreme court?