The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Goes Neo-Confederate on Immigration

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. We're starting to see a neo-confederate nullification movement among the contemporary left, in general, in particular, the Democratic Party. There are governors who openly, literally, candidly says that federal immigration law shall not be enforced in their state, county, and local municipal jurisdiction. They haven't read Article 6 of the Constitution, and they're completely ignorant of history and where nullification of federal law leads to. When federal law died, each side nullified,

Starting point is 00:00:59 nullified it and they began to carry on violence against one another. What we're seeing now is open street violence. Once you nullify federal law and once you glorify violence, we know where it's going to lead. It leads from bleeding Kansas to Harpice Ferry to Fort Sumner. And they're playing with fire and it's very dangerous for the republic and it's time for the left to stop. for the Daily Signal. We're starting to see a neo-confederate nullification movement among the contemporary left in general, in particular the Democratic Party. In other words, there are governors, like Governor Pritzer of Illinois or Governor Newsom of California, Governor Kotech in Oregon, who openly, literally, candidly says that federal immigration law shall not be enforced in their

Starting point is 00:02:04 jurisdictions, their state, county, and local municipal jurisdiction, they haven't read Article 6 of the Constitution. It says explicitly that in matters of the enforcement of federal authority and jurisdiction, which is the United States, it supersedes local law enforcement. And they're completely ignorant of history and where nullification of federal law leads to. We saw it under the Eisenhower administration when Little Rock refused to follow a court-ordered to integrate its school system. The governor Orbel Falbus defied the federal government. President Eisenhower had to nationalize

Starting point is 00:02:42 the Arkansas National Guard and forcibly stop him. The same thing happened in Mississippi under Governor Ross Barnett, 1961. In 1963, George Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa. Alabama and said, I will not allow federal troops. to desegregate this university and they forced him to do that.

Starting point is 00:03:09 From 1855 to 1859 there was something called bleeding Kansas and that meant that groups that were pro-southern or pro-union sent settlers into the territory of Kansas to change the demography so each side would be able to force the United States to either admit it as a free or slave state but the point was that federal law died. Each side nullified it and they began to carry on violence against one another. John Brown, the infamous killer at Harper's Ferry, he executed five people in a raid on a northern community and there were tit for tat violence on both sides. What we're seeing now is open street violence in Portland, Antifa like or Antifa themselves,

Starting point is 00:04:00 protesters, pelt ice agents. They point lasers at their eyes. They try to rush the facilities. And then in extremists, they run over to the other side of the street for the sanctuary of local policemen. In the Chicago area, when ICE agents are besieged and blockaded by cars and under threat, local police do not come to their aid. And it's almost as if these governors and these mayors, it's not almost if it is that they are nullifying federal law in the best spirit. of the Neo-Confederacy. They are saying that Los Angeles or California or Chicago or Illinois have their own unique cultures and we do not want the federal government coming onto federal

Starting point is 00:04:47 property, their own property, and enforcing federal law among us. So they are the successors to Jefferson Davis or Mr. Calhoun, the segregation of states' rightists that tried to nullify the federal government. And there's a little twist to this story. They're also very hypocritical. If someone were to follow their prompt in a red state or a red county or a red city and say federal gun registration law does not apply here, Endangered Species Law lists don't apply here. You know what the left would do. They would go crazy. You are Confederate nullifications. Federal law will force you to register guns in a county in Utah. You can take You can see what they would say if Donald Trump said, well, this federal judge, he's just a district judge.

Starting point is 00:05:37 He's not a circuit judge. He's not a Supreme Court judge. He's a political activist. He's making up laws as he's going. He's just trying to delay and hamstring my administration. I'm not going to follow a federal writ. He couldn't do that. He's doing that.

Starting point is 00:05:52 The left would go crazy. And yet that is what they're doing. So the next stage is even scarier because we're not just seeing street thuggery. we are seeing officials as in Los Angeles that are helping to docks and identify ice agents electronically and making apps and trying to help the illegal alien or the person who is a criminal illegal alien escape deportation efforts of ice. And remember, contrary to what the left says, the statistics show that about 80% or more of the people that ICE is arresting either have criminal records.

Starting point is 00:06:35 They're part of the 500,000 that the Biden administration let in, or they have pre-existing deportation orders they've been ignored. And yet our own state, local, and city officials are helping people who are breaking federal law and opposing, sometimes quasi-violently, are condoning the violence of federal enforcement agents who are trying to enforce federal law. This has a neo-confederate pedigree, and we know where bleeding Kansas led to. Once you nullify federal law and once you glorify violence, and by the way, the left has glorified almost every major left-wing assassin, whether it was Mr. Hodgkinson that tried to take out the House leadership, or Tyler Robinson, who took out Charlie Kirk, or Dewege

Starting point is 00:07:28 Mangione, who killed his CEO of United Health, or Mr. Crooks and Mr. Ruth, who tried to kill Donald Trump on two occasions. When you have glorification of that type of violence and political assassination, we know where it's going to lead. It leads from Bleeding Kansas to Harpest Ferry to Fort Sumner. And they're playing with fire, and it's very dangerous for the Republic. And it's time for the left to stop. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hanssen. for the Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Goes Neo-Confederate on Immigration

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