In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln's opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln's wisdom. This week's lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement standoff in the Twin Cities is but the latest instance of a yearslong baleful trend.

On Wednesday, 37-year-old "queer activist" Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good, who had barricaded her vehicle in an attempt to obstruct an active law enforcement operation, ignored agents' requests to exit the vehicle and instead directed her car at one of the agents. Good actually then hit the agent, who was briefly hospitalized for his injuries. But before she could do even more damage, the agent shot and killed Good. The federal government has called Good's encounter "an act of domestic terrorism" and said the agent shot in self-defense.

Suffice it to say, Minnesota's Democratic establishment does not see it this way.

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