The Democrats have two more martyrs in Minneapolis to serve their cause now.

Anti-ICE activists Alex Pretti and Renee Good were deluded, if well-meaning, patsies for the Democrats’ lust for power by any means, preferably foul.

Both were armed and resisting arrest when they were shot by ICE agents: Pretti, 37, with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun tucked in his pants, and Good, also 37, with a large SUV that she accelerated at an ICE agent.

They died for the cause they had been assured by Minnesota leaders was righteous: obstructing federal agents from carrying out President Trump’s mandate to deport murderers, rapists, child predators, drug traffickers, terrorists, and other criminal illegal aliens who have invaded this country.

If anyone, apart from their foolish selves, is to blame for their deaths, it’s not the federal agents placed in an intolerably chaotic situation, outnumbered by feral, foul-mouthed domestic terrorists, one of whom bit off an agent’s finger last week.

No, the blame rests with Democratic politicians who are inciting the mob: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, the same cast of misfits who gave us the anti-cop BLM-George Floyd riots that engulfed the country in 2020.

Just as Floyd’s death was a pretext for violent riots aimed at damaging Trump and winning an election for Democrats, so too are the deaths of Good and Pretti. There is no remorse, just calculated opportunism.

It’s the same playbook as 2020, with well-funded, highly organized militant groups driving the action, although this time, black bloc Antifa thugs on the front lines have given way to sympathetic-seeming mothers and protesters in animal costumes to soften the optics.

The same Democrats are fanning the flames of public unrest and hobbling local police, so federal agents have no backup when set upon by a violent mob.

Walz and Frey similarly stood down the Minneapolis police in 2020, and Walz delayed calling out the National Guard, all the better to let the city burn, as his wife savored the scent of arson through the open windows of the governor’s mansion. 

They delivered an iconic victory to the anti-cop rioters when they ordered the surrender of the Third Precinct, which was ransacked and set ablaze. The abandoned ruins remain as a testament to the awesome power of a useful mob in a blue city.

Walz and Frey were rewarded with re-election, and Walz was elevated to VP candidate (can you imagine!) last year in tacit recognition of his malevolent role in Joe Biden’s victory.

There is no doubt, as Trump has said, that Walz and comrades are inciting the mayhem in part to divert attention from the multibillion-dollar welfare and election fraud operation they enabled among their Somali client electorate, a scandal that forced Walz to drop his re-election bid, two days before Good was killed.

At best, Walz and his AG turned a blind eye.

At worst, they were in on it.

In a 2021 audio recording leaked to Fox News, Ellison can be heard in a meeting with Somali fraudsters agreeing to help them secure funding in return for campaign donations.

Instead of de-escalating after Good’s death, Democrats doubled down on the rhetoric and started fundraising off the tragedy.

Walz escalated his rabble-rousing: “Resistance matters,” he told devotees outside the governor’s mansion last week. “We’re winning it because we’re doing it with Minnesota grit.”

Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes was more explicit when she declared that residents could shoot ICE agents under the state’s self-defense laws.

“You have these masked federal officers with very little identification … wearing plain clothes and masks [and] we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force,” she said.

Got it?

By Friday, Democrats had stoked public outrage to a fever pitch with a new hoax about a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy they falsely claimed was “kidnapped” by ICE and used as “bait” to entrap his illegal alien father. In fact, the father abandoned the boy in the freezing cold, and when officers took the child home, they say his mother refused to open the door, so they reunited him with his father in detention.

What else were they to do? Hand him over to an unvetted sponsor like the Biden administration did to thousands of children trafficked over the border and now missing?

In the renewed unrest the day after the bait-boy hoax exploded, Pretti was shot dead.

Walz got what he wanted: another martyr, more chaos, more “winning.”

He had the opportunity of lowering tensions last week by complying with the reasonable request conveyed in person by VP JD Vance: Could Minnesota authorities simply cooperate with the feds by sharing information on criminal suspects, and end stand-down orders to police? After all, thanks to Trump’s law-and-order crackdown and ICE deportations of violent offenders, murders fell 21% last year in 35 large US cities, likely the lowest murder rate since 1900. It’s a policy that benefits all Americans.

Instead, Walz dialed up the hype. He claimed ICE was shooting citizens “in the face when they come out of donut shops … The  president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”

There’s no compromising with the likes of Walz and our own Zohran Mamdani — who will accept nothing less than abolishing ICE, and thus no immigration enforcement.

Walz’s lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, took to social media to urge activists to “put your body on the line.”

Right on cue, Antifa “influencer” and Minnesota cross-dresser Kyle Wagner posted videos on social media urging an armed uprising: “Get your f–king guns and stop these f–king people … The Second Amendment is the only thing that’s gonna keep you ­f–king protected from literal f–king Nazi gunmen.”

They want more deaths. They want to incite more violence. It serves their purposes.

But once bitten, twice shy. Trump should not make the same mistake as in 2020 when his administration shied away from confronting the chaos that Democrats seeded across the country.

This time, he has an administration capable of working smarter.

There is too much pressure on DHS. They need sophisticated backup from the DOJ, FBI, IRS, you name it.

Republicans should take a leaf from their Biden counterparts’ ruthlessly creative approach to the J6 prosecutions.

Fight fire with fire.

“Strong letters” to Walz from AG Pam Bondi are not enough.

Where is the FBI raid on Antifa Kyle? How did they let militants loot the weapons cache in an FBI vehicle?

Why are Walz, Ellison and Frey not bogged down in legal action, and stripped of funding?

And now that US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is refusing to vote for DHS funding in the appropriations bill, why don’t Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster so they can override Democratic obstructionism?

ICE agents can’t be expected to carry the burden alone.