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If you needed proof that the modern left talks revolution from behind velvet ropes, Tuesday’s spectacle delivered it in spades — and Rob Henderson joined Megyn Kelly to call it out on live air. Henderson, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show to rip into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for cheering on anti-ICE agitation while pretending their lofty words aren’t tied to real-world consequences.
Watch the video and it’s jaw-dropping: Gov. Walz, ringed by the gates of the governor’s mansion, borrowed John Lewis’ “good trouble” rhetoric as a go-ahead for protestors to keep harassing ICE on Minnesota streets. He lectured through a megaphone about civil resistance while comfortably barricaded behind his estate — the very picture of elite exemption from the chaos he encourages elsewhere.
It’s not just optics; there are real legal questions now. Walz and other Minnesota officials have reportedly been subpoenaed in a Justice Department probe into whether state leaders conspired to impede federal law enforcement amid the anti-ICE unrest, which makes his public exhortations far more than feel-good rhetoric. If elected leaders are egging on resistance while hiding behind gates, they ought to face every accountability check the rule of law provides.
Meanwhile in New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told The View he supports abolishing ICE outright, framing the agency as a terrorizing force rather than a federal law-enforcement body tasked with protecting citizens from criminal illegal entrants. His remarks came after the deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting that has roiled the nation, and he used the platform of a national morning show to endorse dismantling the agency. This is the kind of radical, catchphrase-driven policymaking that leaves cities less safe, not safer.
Progressives want you to believe that dismantling federal immigration enforcement is simply “humanity.” But the aftermath of the Renee Good shooting shows the opposite: chaos, politicized narratives, and nationwide protests that have inflamed tensions and put ICE agents and civilians at risk. Americans who care about law and order should be alarmed that elected officials are fanning the flames rather than calming them and defending the basic institutions that keep our streets safe.
Federal authorities have already begun to respond to the left’s escalation: arrests have been made in connection with an anti-ICE disruption at a St. Paul church, and the Justice Department has signaled that civil and criminal laws will be enforced where protests cross into intimidation or illegal conduct. The idea that cheers from politicians excuse invading sacred spaces or obstructing law enforcement will not fly in a country that still believes in equal application of the law.
Rob Henderson did what reporters on the left refuse to do: he named the hypocrisy and put the behavior in its proper political context. He pointed out that while the coastal and national elite applaud the moral pose of “good trouble,” ordinary Americans — many of them blue-collar, law-abiding patriots — are the ones who pay the price when enforcement is weakened and emboldened agitators run wild. That plain truth is why conservatives must not retreat from defending institutions and legal authority.
This moment is a test for every Republican and every voter who believes in safety, sovereignty, and the rule of law. Call out the double standards when governors and mayors cheer disorder from secure enclaves, demand that federal probes run their course, and refuse to let abolitionist sloganeering replace serious policy debate. America deserves leaders who protect citizens, not politicians who pose for optics while giving cover to chaos.
