in which Russell Moore tries on Christian nationalism, January 21st, 2026.

Introduction and background. Minneapolis, it turns out, is ground zero for lots of things.

George Floyd lost his life there, victim of a drug overdose, and his death was

falsely blamed on the officer who was restraining him. Consequently, hundreds of buildings were

burned in rage over that incident, all for the sake of George, not the police officer. Under intense

pressure from the mob, that officer, Derek Chauvin, was unjustly convicted and is still incarcerated.

Our generation for years has pretended to be vastly superior to the lynching culture of the early 20th century south, but this superiority turns out

to have been a flickering shadow of our own conceits. In the meantime, there's been an ongoing and

massive influx of Somalians into Minneapolis, worrisome to some, and celebrated by many.

That Somalian community made itself notorious by serving as the delivery platform for a significant

number of fraudulent operators, who vacuumed up billions of dollars from the government by running

daycares with no kids in them. That way it reduces overhead. As the investigations into that are

proceeding, it looks as though a lot of government officials are in legal trouble, either because

they greased the skids for the fraud, or because they were too afraid of being called racist to say

anything about it. And incidentally, this fraud investigation is revealing what a crackerjack

vetting team the Harris campaign must have had.

I mean, they landed on Tim Walls as candidate for Veep. Jeepers. In the meantime, Donald Trump was

elected by the people of this country in order that he might take an aggressive approach to the

deportations of illegals, and his fulfillment of that part of his platform has brought ICE to

Minneapolis in force.

Liberals there, of course, mobilized, harassing ICE, interfering with their work, and protesting.

In the course of one of those protests, Renee Good attempted to run over an ICE agent with a car and was fatally shot by him.

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