Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has grabbed the nation’s attention for his theatrical pronouncement that he would use local police and a vast array of citizen volunteers to block federal authorities from conducting mass deportations of illegal aliens in his city. The comments run face first into the uncomfortable reality that Johnston and his woke Denver officials are crafting another New York City-style migrant disaster in the Rockies.
“More than us having [Denver Police Department] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston told local publication Denverite in a blustering November 20 interview. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” He continued: “You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
Johnston only tepidly walked back his over-the-top comments two days later in an interview with KUSA-TV in Denver, saying he would take them back if he could but that “what I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country. I think none of us want that.”
Yet he still vowed that he is willing to go to jail to fight the mass deportation of illegals in his city. “I think [if] things are happening that are illegal or immoral or un-American in our city, I would certainly protest it, and I would expect other residents would do the same,” Johnston reiterated.
Championing a Denver Disaster
Johnston is rather transparently seeking to cast himself as a modern-day incarnation of Civil Rights-era protesters against segregation. That’s long been an exceedingly stale Democrat pose in the decades since the 1960s. In this case, it further reveals the daydreamy disconnect of blue elected officials from the citizens of the United States. Johnston claims a wholly unconvincing moral high ground as he presides over a migration crisis in Denver similar to those now threatening to bankrupt progressive bastions such as Boston and New York. […]
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