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In many ways, in fact, Bovino’s shock troops have the most in common with the Klan “night rides” of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow era South, where hooded Klan members on horseback — often “respectable” leaders of the White community like the local sheriff — terrorized Black families and abused their civil rights.
We may never fully know the cost of MIDWAY BLITZ, which lasted just about two months, but it was surely tens of millions of dollars — probably millions of dollars a day, in fact — and in the most concentrated and violent set of raids over the better part of two months, the Trump administration managed to arrest roughly the number of people it hopes to arrest and deport every single day across the nation. These are PR stunts — not a serious strategy. The terror is real; the impact is a rounding error. That means that it’s going to be really hard to scale or sustain this level of terror across the country.