Conservative analyst Rick Wilson issued a shocking warning about what's to come following the President Donald Trump administration's latest "horrors" in Minneapolis.
Wilson, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, wrote in a new Substack essay on Sunday that Trump appears to be lurching the political discourse firmly in one direction. The essay was published a day after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was gunned down by Trump's immigration agents at an anti-Trump protest in Minneapolis.
Pretti's killing happened about three weeks after Renee Good's killing, which sparked nationwide protests and calls for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
"We know the horrors ICE has committed in Minneapolis and beyond," Wilson wrote. "The casual brutality, the arrogant dismissal of rights, the hideous capering and laughter at the suffering they inflict on both immigrants and Americans. They are, in our digital age, recorded for grim posterity."
"The incentives for the Trump Administration’s armed political force are entirely ratcheting in one direction, and we must consider that direction now," he added. "Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, the vast MAGA influencer and propaganda ecosystem, and DHS itself have no incentive to slow down, to turn around, to stop their war on our rights and liberties."
Wilson argued that the Trump administration displayed some concerning behaviors in the aftermath of Pretti's killing. For instance, they spread untruths about his motive for attending the protest and the events that led up to his death. Pretti's parents called out these "lies" in a statement they released on Sunday.
"I beg you to understand this: everything happening in Minnesota with ICE delights them," Wilson continued. "This isn’t a crisis for them; it’s a big shove of the Overton Window toward the fascism they now openly crave."
