The Right is Shocked by Anti-ICE Organizing | Religion Dispatches

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“Over the weekend, a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis, which quickly went viral on the online Right. As thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis and around the country to protest the ICE assault on communities and the brutal murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, reactionary keyboard warriors stared wide-eyed and aghast at images from chats showing neighbors organizing street-level mutual-aid networks and ICE-monitoring shifts.

Over and over, they issued breathless versions of the same refrain: 

“The Left is infinitely times [sic] more organized than the Right.” 

It’s hard to miss the note of envy. Indeed, there’s always been a not-so-subtle thread of envy running through the history of conservatism. Whether it’s the French Revolution, 1917, the 1960s New Left or Minneapolis today, the Right has been persistently jealous that the forces of human emancipation are not only more numerous and better organized than they are, but that they’re also having more fun and have a more compelling vision of the future than they can ever dream of.” 

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