Vice President JD Vance’s efforts to calm the furor in Minneapolis were not likely to win him any friends in Minnesota’s state government, but the analytical politician who helped Donald Trump win the White House through scandal and past defeat was on full display on Thursday.
Even as Vance pleaded with state and city officials to assist ICE agents in locating individual undocumented immigrants and enforcing the law with regard to protesters, he was nearly as punitive as he repeatedly blamed those same officials for the “chaos” he said was infecting the city in isolation after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good.
