The Left Cannot Destroy Our Identity

Over the past week, most Americans have had the déjà vu moment to what many felt during the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. Particularly in watching Minneapolis, we have seen not only the growing and violent attacks against Federal Agents attempting to enforce immigration law, but crazed leftist rhetoric alluding to coming Civil War. Mayor Jacob Frey has openly told Federal agents to “get the f..ck” out of Minneapolis.

Frey has warned the nation his city could soon have local law enforcement fighting with Federal law enforcement. Governor Tim Walz has gone further with a hyperbolic wartime address to his citizens. He called the immigration enforcement in Minnesota “a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” Then, after defaming the Federal government as another Nazi Germany, Walz then commended the open “resistance” against the Federal government. Walz claimed “We’re an island of decency in a country being driven towards cruelty.” (Governor Tim Walz, Jan. 14, 2026)

As Walz and others attempt to permanently divide America, it’s time for a reminder of our true national identity. First, as founder John Adams put it, we believe in “A government of laws, not of men.” (Pacific Legal Foundation, July 1, 2019)

This applies directly to the current circumstances. Federal agents are not a “Gestapo”, as the lefts now ubiquitously alleges, but officers enforcing immigration law as passed by Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the sole power over immigration law, and the executive branch the sole duty of enforcement. The Biden Administration ironically made this point while allowing millions across the Southern Border. Texas attempted to stem the flow of the invasion but was sued by the Biden DOJ claiming Texas had no right to enforce immigration. Texas conceded the Federal government’s Constitutional power over immigration (and pled with Biden to enforce the law) yet argued the state’s inherent right to defend against invasion.

The law is clear. In Minneapolis, as happened in “blue” cities like Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle, the left claims Federal Agents don’t have the right to carry out immigration law. Though the ICE operations target known criminal illegals and gang members , that doesn’t matter to the left.

“If” the illegal immigrant’s crime was to illegally enter the U.S. (which Congress has made a crime and not just a civil offense), blue city politicians allege enforcement should never occur. Further, it is only motivated by racism and should be resisted by all. Pure lawlessness in overturning the John Adams quote. At a Congressional hearing, Rep. Ilhan Omar not only egregiously defamed Federal agents but ominously warned “we will fight back”. (Ilhan Omar, Jan. 16, 2026)

Just as during the riots of 2020, antithetical to that part of our American identity. As we watch the mayhem on the streets of places like Minneapolis where radical agitators physically assault Federal Agents to prevent them from enforcing laws, it’s important to think about our moral identity. To our founders, Liberty was not considered an end, but as a means to the end of personal virtue. Founder John Adams famously said “this Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and is wholly unsuited to the governance of any other.” This observation of the general moral identity of Americans, flowing from a general agreement of Bible truth and natural law, was ubiquitous among the founders. Research Fellow for American Studies, Brenda Hafora, makes the following observation of the importance of virtue:

“While Founders like Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson, and Mercy Otis Warren used ‘independence’ in varying ways, none of their definitions is synonymous with the radical autonomy that progressives push today. When considering the conditions of the time and place that the Founders found themselves in—that is, putting their ideas in the proper context—this becomes obvious. Individual independence for the Founders is always situated within a transcendent moral order, human nature, and an understanding of what enables human flourishing.” (Heritage Foundation, Jul 6, 2023)

Democrats have shown through their words and actions they view lawless uncontrolled illegal immigration as to their political advantage and in that power. The founders would have been sick at this kind of reasoning, as they believed Americans should exercise liberty to seek true virtue and not power. Voluntarily supporting the public good, including the support for the law was virtuous. Within this context, the American identity is tied direclty to Christianity, which demands citizens support rightfully enacted laws, keep public order, and care for families. Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about America in the 1830s “There is no country on earth in which the Christian religion has greater influence over the souls of men than in America.” (American Minute, August 31, 2023)

Famed modern British historian, Paul Johnson, who wrote “History of the American Peoples” asserted that “America is a god-fearing country, with all that implies.” To the left, our unity as a god-fearing, law-abiding nation is mistaken and even bigoted. Their value is as little unity as possible and an unsustainably forced diversity. Proverbs 14:34 reminds us “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” The original Greek term for righteousness here includes individual “moral and spiritual integrity and virtuous character”. That’s who we were as a people and must remain.

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