At this recent press conference, Mackenzie said he supports the separation of authority with the Federal Reserve, yet, if Chairman Powells did indeed something wrong, that he should be prosecuted. He defends the ICE officer in the Minneapolis shooting, but Trump wants to defend the protesters in Tehran.
Mackenzie's tightrope walking will become more difficult as the election nears. By spring he will have a real Democrat hurling accusations, and a President who is more taken with his powers. By that time the first term congressman will have to take an absolute position on the issues as they arise, if he hopes to return to Washington.
ADDENDUM:Local mainstream is reporting about Mackenzie's support for ICE, so now he has three opponents...the Democrat, Trump and himself.
I think you’ll be surprised how much support law enforcement, including ICE, has among voters.
ReplyDeleteMost recognize the paid anti-ICE protests for what they are, which is just another phase of the Defund the Police movement and another clear sign that the democrats have nothing to offer.
That has never been proven. They are residents of Minneapolis sick of the militarized take over of their city but untrained goons who are acting outside their responsibilities.
Delete7:08 - Spare me. Even the woman killed was a leftist trained in obstructing police operations.
DeleteTry all you want to normalize interference with police operations, but the goal of the left and the democrats doing their bidding is to demonize and defund law enforcement.
Good luck living in the world they want to create.
@7:58: It might be better living in that world, than dying in yours?
DeleteThe woman was never hit the agent with her SUV.
DeleteMolovinsky - Nobody is randomly dying in ICE’s world. She intentionally put herself in the middle of a law enforcement operation, and obstructed that operation. She paid the ultimate price for her foolishness.
DeleteAgain, you don’t get to interfere with the enforcement of laws just because you disagree with them.
And to the stooge at 8:23, the ICE officer WAS DEFINITELY hit with the SUV. Only anti-Trump and anti-law enforcement goons are still trying to spout that lie.
anon@3:43:I wonder to whom you're preaching? LIke everything with the Trump administration, it is the "excess" and theater that repulses people. Of course illegal gang members must be rounded up, but do you need a gestapo army? I think the independents had enough of Trump already, short of a year in. I've had enough of the Republican silence about it.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how much support Mr Mackenzie will have from GOP voters if he supports President Trump in his congressional re-election bid.
ReplyDeleteMackenzie will have to support Trump's action in Venezuela by removing Maduro to face US criminal prosecution. However, he also has left the remaining Maduro regime in power, that represses Venezueleans. There were Venezuleans celebrating in Miami and Buneos Aires, but not in Caracas when Maduro was siezed,
Also it is lookiing more and more that Trump may indeed attempt to sieze Greenland by military force, likely this summer as Denmark has rebuffed all of Trump's attempts to buy the island.
Under the existing agreement we have with Denmark, the United States can station as many of our forces we want to in Greenland if national defense is the reason for this uproar. The Danes would likely also welcome US investment as well for natural resource extraction.
However it seems that Trump is hell-bent on acquiring the island "the easy way or the hard way" .... whatever implications that implies...
Will Mackenzie support Trump in these endeavors? I suppose the voters will see. Especially in the Democratic-dominated district he represents.
Brent@6:40: For me, he and fellow Republicans have already been to slow to speak out. If I had to vote tomorrow, I'd pass over the 7th District slot on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the DNC, they ran very smear-like ads against him all weekend (yes...11 months before the election!), making him out to be some kind of a monster. His only chance may be a cancellation of the November mid-terms. We don't need them due to Trump's performance.
ReplyDeleteJust yesterday, these anti-ICE “protesters” stormed a church during Sunday services. Why, because one of the pastors was believed to have a differing opinion than they did.
ReplyDeleteThat’s what Leftists do. They don’t want to debate and they promote violence.
I happen to believe that there are enough Americans who have had enough of the anti-law enforcement rhetoric from the leftists that control the Democrat party and will hand them the electoral defeat they so richly deserve.
I don’t think Mackenzie is a terrible guy. However, he’s a young career politician who aligned himself with Trump for a win. Unfortunately Trump is crazy and gave Congress the longest vacation ever, so he could act without them. Now Mackenzie is swimming upstream. It may be too late to play both sides of the fence. The big beautiful bill comes with consequences for members of Congress. While he was posing for photos at daycares he was voting to take away the subsidies that keep them in business. It just doesn’t work that way.
ReplyDeleteanon@12:21: I think that he could save himself, but he must speak up very soon, and loud while he's at it.
ReplyDeleteTDS is absolutely real. As Trump said in January 2016, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shot someone and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Many of his voters have TDS and he knows it. He believes he is unfettered because they will support anything he does. Maybe some of them will recognize the symptoms. Maybe notice that the America first president is now the foreign war president. The lower prices president is now “Tariff Man”. Etc. But likely not. TDS is a nasty bug.
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