Trump's second term: Jan. 6 on a grand scale

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Trump’s second term: Jan. 6 on a grand scale
What we saw at the US Capitol five years ago was merely a trial run for the chaos and violence of 2026

By Kirk Swearingen
Contributing Writer
Published January 31, 2026 6:30AM (EST)


What Donald Trump is doing in Minneapolis is what he had his armed mob do at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, only on a much larger scale.

At his inflammatory “Stop the Steal” rally five years ago, Trump exhorted an armed mob to “fight like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore.” He has given the same marching orders to the paramilitary thugs he’s set loose on anyone who looks like they might be an immigrant, and any American citizen standing up for them.

Does this violent, ragtag militia even deserve to be called Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as if it were actually a functioning agency of the government?

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Indeed, one wonders how many of them are veterans of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election? Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has requested answers to that question in a letter sent to both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (Looking at Raskin’s letter, one also wonders how much cognitive dissonance was required to address Bondi and Noem as “The Honorable.”)

The purposeful incitement of violence by heavily armed and masked ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis follows similar scenes in Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis, Charlotte, New Orleans and other cities where Americans have had the nerve to elect Democrats to leadership. Like a cheap mobster trying to enforce his rule over the mean streets, Trump utilizes threats of violence to make people living in blue states think twice about crossing him again. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/31/trumps-second-term-jan-6-on-a-grand-scale/