The unfolding debacle in Minneapolis captures an underappreciated fact about the Democratic Party: It is configured to react in unreasoning rage to everything President Trump does. The challenge of “messaging”—how to condemn roundups of illegal migrants without defending protesters’ lawlessness—is only a symptom of the problem. The problem itself arises from the Byzantine network of activist nonprofits created and fostered over the past decade and a half by liberal foundations and progressive billionaires.
The Democrats’ nonprofit problem began more or less in 2010, when a cap-and-trade bill died in the Senate. Wealthy foundations and donor-class ideologues, animated by fears of global catastrophe, decided they couldn’t achieve their goals by democratic persuasion and had to create an army of nonprofit groups to wage legal and political war on the imagined enablers of climate change.
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MADISON (WKOW) — Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett is responding to accusations made by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surrounding an undocumented woman accused of the deaths of two Minnesota teenagers.
Noelia Martinez is in the Dane County Jail after reportedly driving the wrong way on the interstate near Deforest, hitting a car with 18-year-old Hallie Helgelson and 19-year-old Brady Heiling.
Martinez is charged with nine crimes, including homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, operating while intoxicated, and operating a motor vehicle while revoked causing death.