What a Time to Be Alive
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I got nothing here except to just say…….OK then……there is a lot of cognitive dissonance these days. But…OK then!
Ammon Bundy is decrying government overreach once again. Only this time, his views align much more with those on the political left than the right.
Oregonians know Bundy well. It was 10 years ago that the rancher led the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. Back then, Bundy and his group were protesting the imprisonment of local ranchers while also challenging the federal government’s approach to land management across the West. Bundy was arrested, jailed for months and then acquitted of federal charges. Along the way, he became a heroic figure in certain conservative circles.
Fast forward a decade, and Bundy now is speaking out against ICE and the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement. Few in those conservative circles seem to agree with him on this point.
Bundy published an essay in November that defended the rights of immigrants and blasted the federal government’s recent crackdown.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last month, Bundy said on a livestream that ICE’s conduct “looks like tyranny.” Weeks later, Bundy spoke to a writer from The Atlantic shortly after ICE agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Bundy called the situation “sickening to me.”
“When it comes to the more humanitarian side of it, I think the left has it much more correct than the nationalist right,” Bundy told The Atlantic.