By Mark W. Fowler

“Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust.” —Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun

The good rabbi was speaking of the ignorant and outrageous statements of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who compared the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis to the horror visited on Jews. Well, the governor missed the whole point. Anne Frank was a law-abiding citizen persecuted and imprisoned only because of her religion and race. ICE agents are arresting those with orders of deportation and a history of violent crime. They are not picking up gardeners, maids, and nannies. If they were, the ACLU would have filed a writ of habeas corpus by now, and we would have heard that story in endless detail. It has not happened.

Walz and his sidekick, Mayor Jacob Frey, bear significant responsibility for the violence in Minneapolis. Their sanctuary policies make it impossible for ICE to obtain custody of illegal immigrants in the criminal justice system for other reasons. If that were possible, one or two ICE agents could corral the people they seek within the safe confines of the jail. But Walz and Frey made that impossible.

Not only did they make it impossible, but they also fanned the flames of violence and heated rhetoric. When you repeatedly claim ICE officers are acting like Nazis, you create an atmosphere of hatred that impairs judgment and feeds passion. The two individuals killed by ICE agents were killed because they and others were violent and/or reckless. Whether or not they deserved to be killed is something judges and juries will ultimately determine, hopefully in the confines of a safe courthouse.

It is preposterous to requires law enforcement officers to ignore their own safety and to make fine distinctions between what is and is not life-threatening in a fraction of a second. All of this could be avoided if Walz and Frey would cooperate with law enforcement. They prefer to protect lawlessness and criminals.

In addition to the fiasco described above, Walz presided over Minnesota while Somalis stole billions of dollars.

Walz and Frey join California Governor Gavin Newsom, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Texas Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as examples of people who should not be allowed in government under any conceivable circumstances.

Newsom has presided over billions of excessive spending. California has gone from having a budget surplus to having billions of debt, in part due to mismanagement and in part due to providing healthcare, housing, and economic assistance to illegal immigrants. Thousands of homes and billions of dollars of property were lost in a fire, now determined to be wholly preventable if the reservoir had been filled and organic debris cleared from power line right of ways.

Ilhan Omar has managed to turn her congressional career into lucrative opportunities for her husband’s consulting service and is now reporting an increase in net worth of 3,500% over where she started. She has ties to some of the individuals implicated in the fraud in Minnesota. Do the math.

Crockett is running for the Senate in Texas, and her only qualification is an uncanny ability to speak gibberish in front of television cameras.

Harris, whose incompetence is demonstrable every time she speaks, has claimed that many have said she was the most qualified person ever to run for president, an absurd claim she believes despite the obvious credentials of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, all of whom were far more qualified than she will ever be.

DEI hire Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the same person who could not define a woman because she’s not a biologist, has a reputation for speaking the most in oral arguments and comprehending the least. Her comments are frequently peppered with, “I don’t understand.” Indeed.

The list of fools and knaves goes on: Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles, felt compelled to travel out of the country at the peak of fire season to attend an inaugural ceremony in Ghana. Because Ghana is so critical to … something undefined in Los Angeles. To her credit, she had the integrity to admit it was a mistake. Governor and possible presidential contender JB Pritzker of Illinois faces a $3 billion shortfall in the 2026 budget, on top of a pension deficit, which is estimated to be $141 billion. Illinois has the poorest performing pension of any state in the country. Potential pension beneficiaries are in for a rude awakening. Spending under Pritzker’s tenure has increased by over 40%.

H. L. Mencken, an American pundit, once observed, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Minnesota and Illinois prove him right.