They often call ICE "wannabe tough guys." But ICE agents are out in freezing temperatures arresting violent illegal alien criminals while leftists harass and fight them.
I don't think regular people are actually against ICE. Polling on these kind of events is always odd. I don't live in an echo chamber, I actually talk to people from all over the place with different views. Most of the “I know what normies think, therefore read my article crowd” don't actually talk to people outside of like 6 cities. NYC , DC and LA are neither normal nor representative of the country. Scott tends to have a better pulse on things.
I live in a swing district, people are happy with the ICE deportations but are unhappy with it being political ( I think that is incoherent, but it is what I gather). People don't like responsibility. The Anti-Ice people want to try to get something going, but people just don't care enough to do the Summer of Love again outside of a few areas. These areas don't speak for the country.
Compared to the Summer of Love, the deaths of Good and Pretti have certainly not spurred the same type of organized reaction outside of Minneapolis. And even Minneapolis hasn’t seen any widespread rioting. Given that the temperatures are around 0 over there and that neither person was black, that explains things.
I like in a conservative county in a key swing district in Michigan. George Floyd’s death spurred a big protest in my town. There have been some “no kings” protests with modestly high turnout but nothing at the level of 2020, and no major protests over ICE.
He isn't, its becoming the default normie position as far as I can tell. I've had to correct my children, coworkers, and several other casuals about the lies the left is spreading on this issue.
I was concerned I maybe took too many white pills. The flipside is something Scott mentioned subsequent to this. Namely, that the administration, contrary to the perception of some is hardly backing down. Trouble is, if normies think the 'right thing' is to cast a protest vote for ICE and bring us back to where we were under Biden, it's square one. It shows you that the masses really don't have a brain. But it isn't just the masses, as he said, with so many idiotic rightoids carrying the water for white genocide enthusiasts. Support for mass deportations was widespread a year ago. It's anecdotal, but if what you're seeing represents a ubiquitous phenomenon, the fight to take our country back may have stopped before it even started.
There was a poll that had something like -17 approval for Trump's handling of immigration and +3 for his handling of the Southern border. Most Americans have completely incoherent political views. They want the illegals gone, like that the Southern border is not getting flooded, but think that ICE is mean and should probably be abolished. They've given not the slightest thought to the apparent contradiction.
Reminds me of an old comment someone once made about Richard Spencer: "If he's not being a contrarian, he will die." I think this applies to a lot of the Online Right.
Saw a lot of this in relation to the Venezuela stuff. Suddenly we're supposed to side with a Brown drug dealer and a bunch of commies because of fictive international law? Really?
Like many people in the modern world are fundamentally irrational, emotional beings. Their support for deportations probably didn’t go beyond aesthetic distaste for certain kinds of immigrants. But, since ICE is le scary they, like an animal, turn on the people trying to fulfill what they ostensibly want.
In other words, what really unites the Online Right is hatred of Jews (anti-Semitism), whereas actual issues of race and immigration are kind of a moot point for them, and surprisingly not a high priority.
I think this is hard to discern, and probably depends on the age of the online rightist. The younger ones: yes, they are jewpilled and see (((them))) as the overriding issue. I think most people who enter the alt/dissident/new right sphere come in through the JQ portal.
The more intelligent ones eventually come to terms with race realism and biology, and Jews simply become another pack animal in the human jungle, which devours the weak: and the white man is currently weak. It's at this point that immigration/migration does, and should, become the prime focus and top issue in your mind. Anything else is silly distraction at best, rage-baiting at worst.
I think X is a haven for those in their 30s thru 50s, so I would be surprised that most RW posters are JQ-obsessed. I would think that the average RW X user is more Rumble than Right Stuff.
ICE raids are theatre, a spectacle that provides red meat for the base and generates conflict with the left. You cannot convince me this is actually about immigration when their strategy is to bring the circus to town instead of targeting employers, remittance, etc.
Yes. Lots of people are losing their nerve bc the left is very good at dominating the beginning of the news cycle. They will come back around after the next cycle back to dems and that will be driven by bloodshed.
Tbh I see l little actual opposition to immigration raids among the base.
If you tune out the mainstream adjacent “conservatives” who always are just angling for a Fox News broadcast anyways, the mood is more of a grim determination to get shit done.
Or, you know shooting peaceful protestors is not something Republicans support. But you’ve also never defended J6 rioters threatening death to elected officials on January 8th, 2024, right.
You’d feel differently on immigration if you were fleeing war in Sudan, and some Daily Caller comftorble suburbanite wanted to block your application because housing prices could rise .1%.
Conservatives need principles, and if you support anything you support nothing. Shame on you.
I’m tired, boss
This is literally you dude, you are everything this article is describing.
They often call ICE "wannabe tough guys." But ICE agents are out in freezing temperatures arresting violent illegal alien criminals while leftists harass and fight them.
I don't think regular people are actually against ICE. Polling on these kind of events is always odd. I don't live in an echo chamber, I actually talk to people from all over the place with different views. Most of the “I know what normies think, therefore read my article crowd” don't actually talk to people outside of like 6 cities. NYC , DC and LA are neither normal nor representative of the country. Scott tends to have a better pulse on things.
I live in a swing district, people are happy with the ICE deportations but are unhappy with it being political ( I think that is incoherent, but it is what I gather). People don't like responsibility. The Anti-Ice people want to try to get something going, but people just don't care enough to do the Summer of Love again outside of a few areas. These areas don't speak for the country.
Compared to the Summer of Love, the deaths of Good and Pretti have certainly not spurred the same type of organized reaction outside of Minneapolis. And even Minneapolis hasn’t seen any widespread rioting. Given that the temperatures are around 0 over there and that neither person was black, that explains things.
I like in a conservative county in a key swing district in Michigan. George Floyd’s death spurred a big protest in my town. There have been some “no kings” protests with modestly high turnout but nothing at the level of 2020, and no major protests over ICE.
Agreed. Maybe I've just overdosed on plan trust, but I think even Scott may potentially be overstating the disapproval of ICE.
He isn't, its becoming the default normie position as far as I can tell. I've had to correct my children, coworkers, and several other casuals about the lies the left is spreading on this issue.
I was concerned I maybe took too many white pills. The flipside is something Scott mentioned subsequent to this. Namely, that the administration, contrary to the perception of some is hardly backing down. Trouble is, if normies think the 'right thing' is to cast a protest vote for ICE and bring us back to where we were under Biden, it's square one. It shows you that the masses really don't have a brain. But it isn't just the masses, as he said, with so many idiotic rightoids carrying the water for white genocide enthusiasts. Support for mass deportations was widespread a year ago. It's anecdotal, but if what you're seeing represents a ubiquitous phenomenon, the fight to take our country back may have stopped before it even started.
There was a poll that had something like -17 approval for Trump's handling of immigration and +3 for his handling of the Southern border. Most Americans have completely incoherent political views. They want the illegals gone, like that the Southern border is not getting flooded, but think that ICE is mean and should probably be abolished. They've given not the slightest thought to the apparent contradiction.
Reminds me of an old comment someone once made about Richard Spencer: "If he's not being a contrarian, he will die." I think this applies to a lot of the Online Right.
Richard Spencer was always an atheist and never an antivaxxer. He didn't leave the alt right, the alt right left him.
"Richard Spencer has ALWAYS been a fággot."
So true!
Bible thumper.
😍😍😍 say it again!
Saw a lot of this in relation to the Venezuela stuff. Suddenly we're supposed to side with a Brown drug dealer and a bunch of commies because of fictive international law? Really?
way too make fake tough based guys online. Online right is mostly fake
Like many people in the modern world are fundamentally irrational, emotional beings. Their support for deportations probably didn’t go beyond aesthetic distaste for certain kinds of immigrants. But, since ICE is le scary they, like an animal, turn on the people trying to fulfill what they ostensibly want.
Looking forward to so-called Monarchists denouncing the return of the Shah.
In other words, what really unites the Online Right is hatred of Jews (anti-Semitism), whereas actual issues of race and immigration are kind of a moot point for them, and surprisingly not a high priority.
I think this is hard to discern, and probably depends on the age of the online rightist. The younger ones: yes, they are jewpilled and see (((them))) as the overriding issue. I think most people who enter the alt/dissident/new right sphere come in through the JQ portal.
The more intelligent ones eventually come to terms with race realism and biology, and Jews simply become another pack animal in the human jungle, which devours the weak: and the white man is currently weak. It's at this point that immigration/migration does, and should, become the prime focus and top issue in your mind. Anything else is silly distraction at best, rage-baiting at worst.
I think X is a haven for those in their 30s thru 50s, so I would be surprised that most RW posters are JQ-obsessed. I would think that the average RW X user is more Rumble than Right Stuff.
A succinct, well written and necessary column. Thank you.
ICE raids are theatre, a spectacle that provides red meat for the base and generates conflict with the left. You cannot convince me this is actually about immigration when their strategy is to bring the circus to town instead of targeting employers, remittance, etc.
Anyone going squishy on this should never be trusted with anything ever again. This is legitimately a do or die issue.
The more that comes out regarding Pretti, the more the public will become neutral to the incident. https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/the-far-left-network-that-helped-put-alex-pretti-in-harms-way/
If Trump cucks out over two dead faggots, I swear to god I’m so goddamn done with him.
Yes. Lots of people are losing their nerve bc the left is very good at dominating the beginning of the news cycle. They will come back around after the next cycle back to dems and that will be driven by bloodshed.
*because the own the “news” outlets.
Tbh I see l little actual opposition to immigration raids among the base.
If you tune out the mainstream adjacent “conservatives” who always are just angling for a Fox News broadcast anyways, the mood is more of a grim determination to get shit done.
Or, you know shooting peaceful protestors is not something Republicans support. But you’ve also never defended J6 rioters threatening death to elected officials on January 8th, 2024, right.
You’d feel differently on immigration if you were fleeing war in Sudan, and some Daily Caller comftorble suburbanite wanted to block your application because housing prices could rise .1%.
Conservatives need principles, and if you support anything you support nothing. Shame on you.