The Left is creating a very fun new legal and political standard, and it's one that they won't like when a Democrat regains control of the White House. But foresight has never been the Democratic Party's forté, and they forget the other side gets to move and shoot, too.
In Minneapolis, Oregon, California, and elsewhere, cities are "resisting" President Trump and saying ICE — a federal law-enforcement agency — isn't welcome in their locale. Why? Because they're blue states who voted for Kamala Harris and "against" Trump.
Maga keeps saying "we voted for this" but, no... Minnesota actually voted against this. They voted against Trump and his agenda.
— Political Punk (@actingliketommy) January 10, 2026
So did Illinois, and California, and Oregon, and New York.
So why is Trump sending ICE everywhere that voted against his agenda?
That's not how elections work. President Trump is the president of Minnesota, California, Virginia, Oregon, and every state that voted for his opponent because he won both the Electoral College and, in 2024, the popular vote, too. When Democrats do that, they have a "mandate" to govern as they see fit. When Republicans win the Electoral College, but lose the popular vote, Democrats spend the next four years vowing to abolish the only institution that's keeping America from becoming San Francisco.
But if Democrats want to play this game, fine. I'm down with that.
Just the other day, Mehdi Hasan said he wants the next Democratic president to "be ruthless."
"Not just the next president, next presidential candidate. The 2028 Democratic primaries have to showcase a group of politicians who are running for office to not just fix things, not just offer a bright new future, not just running on a change platform, but are running on a platform to prosecute and punish the people who broke the law, destroyed our country, destroyed our democratic fabric, destroyed society. I mean, turned people against one another."
The only ones turning people against one another are the Democrats, who keep calling half of the country garbage and Nazis. But I digress.
California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell, who hasn't met a Chinese spy he didn't want to woo, took a similar vow if he's elected to lead the Golden State.
"You have immense powers as Governor of California," Swalwell told MS NOW, "and your responsibility is to protect the most vulnerable in this state. So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants through the fields where they work, what I'm going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification, and if they commit crimes, that they're going to be charged with crimes."
He's not only greatly overestimating the power he has as governor — if this were true, why hasn't Gavin Newsom done it already — but both he and Hasan are showing the Democratic Party's hand if they do regain power in 2029: persecutions galore.
And if you think it stops with Trump administration officials and ICE agents, you're sorely mistaken. In fact, it's very likely that if a Democrat wins in 2028, President Trump will grant blanket pardons to everyone as he walks out the door. He'll have no choice, of course, if his successor is vowing to throw hundreds of federal law enforcement agents in prison for the "crime" of enforcing duly enacted immigration laws for a Republican president.
There will be many red states that "vote against" the next Democratic President. Does that mean they, and Republican voters across the country, get to ignore the Democratic administration?
I'm going to hazard a guess that the answer is a no, and a no that will be enforced at the barrel of a gun.
But, as I always say, it's (D)ifferent when they do it. Despite that, Trump is the president of all 50 states, whether or not the Left likes it.
