In a blunt new op-ed, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy is sounding the alarm, claiming that America is on the verge of falling “face-first” into another law enforcement crisis. Drawing a comparison between the 2020 Minneapolis protests and current debates over border security, Kennedy argues that the country is ignoring the hard lessons of the recent past in favor of a “deep-dish stupidity” that threatens national safety.
Kennedy issued what he calls a “cold dish of truth”: the reality that some people are simply antisocial and intent on hurting others. He writes that these individuals aren’t “confused” or “mixed up,” but are simply people who enjoy taking things that don’t belong to them.
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“I don’t know why God made some people that way,” Kennedy writes. “If I get to Heaven, I’m going to ask.”
He argues that the American solution has always been to hire “brave men and women” to stand in the gap, yet the public narrative has been hijacked by a focus on the few officers who fail their duties rather than the millions of positive interactions that happen every day.
The Senator spares no one when discussing the political origins of the “defund the police” movement.
He describes the ideology as a fringe concept that was once the domain of “Marxist academics and soy-latte drinking, NPR-tote bag carrying Karens.” Kennedy asserts that leaders like Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey had a choice between restoring order and appeasing activists.
By choosing the latter, Kennedy argues, they allowed precincts to burn and oversaw a historic spike in crime. He notes that “murderers, thieves, drug dealers and carjackers don’t need hugs; they need jail cells.”
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To support his argument, Kennedy points to the data following the 2020 riots, noting that commercial burglaries in the area rose by 43% and murders by 44%. He highlights the fact that the Minneapolis police force remains 36% smaller today than it was before the unrest, arguing that maintaining a strong force is not a “light switch you can flick on and off as the woke mob demands.”
He explains that after years of being denigrated as “bigots, racists, and murderers,” many officers simply don’t want their jobs back.
The core of Kennedy’s warning is that this same “playbook” is now being used to target federal immigration agencies. He claims that activists and certain Democratic officials are now framing immigration enforcement as “racist” in an attempt to get Congress to defund ICE and the Border Patrol.
Kennedy says that under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, the federal government—not rioters or local activists—dictates which laws are enforced.
“I understand that Walz, Frey and their Democratic colleagues must follow their hearts,” Kennedy said. “I’m just asking them to take their brains with them.”
Labeling the current push against federal enforcement as “weapons-grade stupid,” he insists that robust law enforcement is the only viable solution to the threats posed by cartels and terrorists entering the country.
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