This afternoon Tim Walz called a press conference in which he threatened civil war. It was one of the most extraordinary performances by an American political leader since the Confederates seceded in 1861. Walz said that he had put the Minnesota National Guard on official notice of potential deployment. Deployment to do what? To fight ICE, federal law enforcement:
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>BREAKING – Tim Walz is now threatening to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard to keep the federal government out of Minnesota. <br><br>Literal civil war style rhetoric. <a href=”https://t.co/lwwTTMUYb2″>pic.twitter.com/lwwTTMUYb2</a></p>— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Rightanglenews/status/2009004471112835381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>January 7, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Asked by a reporter to elaborate, Walz mused on the likelihood of civil war:
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Democrat Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz suggests the state is “at war” with the Federal Government.<br><br> <a href=”https://t.co/bEp0PEDMXx”>pic.twitter.com/bEp0PEDMXx</a></p>— America (@america) <a href=”https://twitter.com/america/status/2009017720826913128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>January 7, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
We have never seen anything like it, not just in Minnesota but anywhere in America, since the Civil War: a governor threatening to call out the National Guard to forcibly resist federal authority and prevent the enforcement of our national laws.
Walz can’t seriously think that the Minnesota National Guard can militarily resist federal authority. Federal forces are by no means limited to ICE: President Trump has clear legal authority to call out, for example, the 82nd Airborne to restore order in Minneapolis, if that is what it takes.
Is that seriously what Walz wants? A battle between the Minnesota National Guard and the U.S. Army? I think the military leaders of the Guard would refuse to obey any obviously illegal order that Walz might give them, such as an order to combat ICE.
It is a sad day for Minnesota when our governor can legitimately be compared with Jefferson Davis. At this writing, rioters are taking over the City of Minneapolis. It is an insurrection that, incredibly, is being sponsored by many of Minnesota’s political leaders. Let’s hope it doesn’t take the U.S. Army to restore order.