The Left’s intense anti-ICE rhetoric keeps pouring in, spurring ‘progressives’ across the country to engage in violent acts—or to find themselves caught in dangerous situations, as seen with Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Each day you think things can’t get any worse — not after miscreants like Larry Krasner, Jacob Frey, and Tim Walz continue likening Trump administration officials to Nazis and comparing federal immigration agents to SS stormtroopers.
But that was just the warm-up act.
On Tuesday, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, took it a step further — and not in a good way. During a committee hearing, Nadler suggested a hypothetical in which Americans might be “justified” in shooting federal law-enforcement officers — including agents executing immigration enforcement — if they perceived those agents as masked attackers.
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Nadler framed his comments as a discussion of self-defense against “masked hoodlums,” but critics — including Vice President J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Jr. — say his remarks dangerously blur the line between lawful self-defense and endorsing violence against federal officers enforcing the law:
“What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets,” Nadler said. “The attacks on American citizens, by masked hoodlums. If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person — to protect yourself.”
“We see people being shot, for what? For driving a car?”
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“What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets.”
“The attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. If you were… pic.twitter.com/gJlabKOijv
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 3, 2026
This is leftism distilled to its purest form: make an argument, strip out the facts, and dare anyone to call you on it.
“Just driving a car.” Give me a break.
That framing isn’t an outright lie — but it’s close enough to count. Renee Good wasn’t simply driving a car. She was actively interfering with a federal law-enforcement operation, blocking officers, refusing lawful commands, and allegedly using her vehicle as a weapon by directing it toward agents on the scene.
Words matter. Facts matter. And pretending this was some innocent act of commuting is deliberate misdirection.
Let’s be honest for a moment. If I drove onto a busy boulevard, parked my car sideways to block traffic, refused repeated instructions from officers, and then aimed my vehicle at one of them, there’s no debate about how that would end. I’d either be dead or sitting in a jail cell — and nobody would be writing glowing editorials about my “right to protest.”
You don’t get a free pass to endanger officers because your politics align with Democratic orthodoxy. There is no constitutional right to obstruct federal agents or to turn a car into a potential weapon and call it activism.
And this is where Jerry Nadler’s rhetoric becomes especially dangerous. His bile sounds eerily similar to the “it’s sometimes okay to kill them” language we heard earlier this year from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes — the same moral rot, just repackaged for a different audience:
It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks. And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.
And by the way, maybe federal agents wouldn’t have to be masked if Democrats and their lunatic minions wouldn’t dox them and expose them and their families to danger.
Anyway, Vice President JD Vance was not amused and took to social media to label Nadler’s conduct as “despicable.” He also pointed out, with a hint of sarcasm, the ongoing absence of our supposedly vigilant corporate press:
Jerry Nadler is one of the highest ranking Democrats in the House of Representatives and he is openly calling for people to shoot federal law enforcement.
This is despicable behavior from an elected official and I’m sure the leftwing media will cover it extensively.
Jerry Nadler is one of the highest ranking Democrats in the House of Representatives and he is openly calling for people to shoot federal law enforcement.
This is despicable behavior from an elected official and I'm sure the leftwing media will cover it extensively. https://t.co/hmbV43h43H
— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 3, 2026
The president’s eldest son, Donald Jr., also had thoughts. “This is demented,” he wrote in a post on X. “Democrats once again openly calling for violence!!!”
Yes — the violence is getting worse, and that’s no accident.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly acknowledged an unprecedented surge in attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal immigration personnel, including a dramatic rise in vehicular assaults, threats, and physical confrontations targeting agents who are simply trying to enforce existing law. These are not isolated scuffles — they’re a real and growing pattern.
We’ve also witnessed some of the most brazen acts of political violence in recent American history — from a failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump to the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, followed by chaotic demonstrations in cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York that have at times erupted into disorder — yet certain political leaders keep stoking anger instead of calling for calm.
What’s striking is how the solution has been right in front of them the whole time: if Democratic officials in sanctuary cities truly cared about safety in their communities, they would cooperate with federal law enforcement when it comes to immigration enforcement and criminal justice, especially at jails and detention centers where federal agents have legal authority to operate.
But they refuse. They loudly oppose cooperation, routinely block information sharing, and publicly vilify federal officers as though enforcing immigration law were some kind of immoral act. That refusal isn’t just policy — it’s a signal. It tells federal agents and the public that these local politicians prefer posturing over public safety. They don’t want enforcement in their backyards, no matter how much crime or chaos it causes.
What they want — and what they openly demonstrated during the “let them all in” Biden years — is unfettered illegal immigration. No enforcement. No limits. No consequences. Just chaos, dressed up as compassion.
And any serious attempt to restore order is met with the same playbook every time: hysterical rhetoric, demonization of law enforcement, and toxic calls to “resist” that inevitably bleed into real-world violence. They don’t argue policy anymore — they incite.
But the public already rendered its verdict.
In November 2024, voters made it unmistakably clear that open borders are not what they want. They rejected the disorder, the lies, and the gaslighting. They chose enforcement, sovereignty, and basic common sense over ideological insanity.
Now comes the hard part: holding the line.
That message has to be sent again — in the midterms and again in 2028 — because the people pushing open borders haven’t retreated an inch. They’re waiting for fatigue, distraction, or apathy to set in so they can pick up right where they left off.
As for the retiring Nadler, good riddance. January 2026 can’t get here fast enough.
