Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D-IL) incendiary speech last year calling on Democrats to organize massive civil unrest was the opening salvo in what has become a progressive war against the Trump administration’s enforcement of federal immigration laws. “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” Pritzker told an assemblage of New Hampshire Democrats and donors, “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. The reckoning is finally here!”

A number of things struck me when I heard Pritzker’s speech. Was he calling for mass protests such as the 2020 George Floyd riots that caused at least 25 deaths and $2 billion in property damage? Who was he mobilizing, antifa? Was he calling for Portland-style sieges, where a Trump supporter was targeted and killed? 

What did he want disrupted? Church services, airports, freeways, and bridges? Courtrooms, legislatures, government offices? Schools and universities? Lawful detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants?

In the year since Pritzker’s speech, we’ve received the answer: it’s all of the above.

Antifa radicals have ambushed an ICE facility, schools have been shuttered for “ICE Out” demonstrations, roads and airports have been blocked, rioting and arson have broken out in major cities, ICE officers are being violently attacked, and........

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