Worth a read: The latest from Adam Serwer, who's been in Minnesota:
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Worth a read: The latest from Adam Serwer, who's been in Minnesota:
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme.
The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.
Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.
