Donald Trump and maga Republicans are scapegoating innocent immigrants and Democrats must push back with resistance

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu takes on Trump while Josh Kraft scrambles: The Trump administration’s threat of serious consequences unless Boston tosses its immigrant-friendly policies hands the mayor a national platform to defy him. Echo editorial published in The Boston Globe.

Wait a minute❓

😕 Isn’t President Trump allegedly friends with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the father of Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft❓

If that’s the case, why is Trump working so hard to help Mayor Michelle Wu win reelection❓

Thanks to Trump administration threats of serious consequences unless Boston tosses its immigrant-friendly policies, Wu is not talking about schools, housing, downtown revitalization, the cost of rebuilding White Stadium, the city’s drug and homeless problem, or the impact of bike lanes on small businesses. Instead, she’s standing up grandly for Boston’s historic role in fighting kings and oppression. As she said at Tuesday’s rally on City Hall Plaza, Boston “will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.”

In a blue city that mostly despises Trump, that’s music to voters’ ears. Or, in the words of Senator Ed Markey as he warbled along with others to “Cielito Lindo” (Mexican folk song) during a mariachi rally warm-up: “Ay, ay, ay, ay.”

Reports that Trump might wade into the New York City mayor’s race by trying to help former governor Andrew Cuomo defeat Zohran Mamdani have roiled that contest. In Boston, Trump is helping Wu not by voicing support for any particular candidate but by handing her a national platform to defy him.
It started earlier in the year with Trump’s border czar, (evil❗👿😡) Tom Homan, saying he was “coming to Boston” and “bringing hell.” That, in turn, led to Wu’s defiant testimony in support of Boston’s immigration policies before a congressional panel stacked with hostile Republican lawmakers. Then came a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding the city end an ordinance known as the Trust Act that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents.

Kraft, meanwhile, is trying to sever any connection to Trump. He has gone from gently saying he disagrees with his father about Trump to saying in a television ad that he and Wu agree that Trump is “unhinged.” His campaign also distributed a flier that contains the line, “Here in Boston, we don’t let lunatics like Donald Trump push us around.” It’s almost as if Kraft is begging Trump to say something mean about him on his Truth Social media platform to finally establish some anti-Trump credentials with Boston voters.

But with Boston’s September 9, preliminary election just a few weeks away, it’s hard to cut Trump out of the picture of who Josh Kraft is.

Separation from Trump needed to occur when Kraft first announced his candidacy in February. Instead, from the start, Josh Kraft’s story was intertwined with the story of his father’s ever-evolving but still longtime friendship with Trump. After putting out word in October that he had cut ties with Trump, Robert Kraft did his son no favors by seeming to revive his Trump connection. First came news that the elder Kraft helped broker a deal between Trump and a major law firm, followed by reports that top attorneys at the firm contributed to a super PAC that supports Josh Kraft. Kraft also accepted money from other friends of his father, and from other supporters who also support Trump.

When it comes to Trump, you can’t have it both ways in Boston, but Josh Kraft tried. 

Beating an incumbent was always going to be hard. Beating one with Trump in the picture makes it even harder. It’s not the only reason why Kraft is 30 points behind Wu, according to a recent poll. 

But Trump’s targeting of Boston, complicated by Robert Kraft’s Trump connection, is a heavy lift for a Boston mayoral candidate.

Wu has deftly turned Trump’s attacks on this city into a magnificent cause that conjures up Faneuil Hall, the Old North Church, and the quest for freedom, democracy, and a new nation that began here in Boston.

As she said at Tuesday’s rally, “This has always been a city of revolution, of innovation, of standing up for the public good and never bowing down to tyranny.”

Mixed in with those stirring themes were quite a few hard jabs, including one about Jeffrey Epstein. “Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list,” Wu said.
How Boston’s showdown with AG Pam Bondi ends is unclear. In the letter the AG sent to Wu, she asked Wu to submit a response by August 19, and threatened city officials with prosecution. In a recent Fox News appearance, Bondi suggested that cities that resist Trump immigration enforcement policies could lose federal funding and threatened to send in federal law enforcement agents.

Louise Fletcher is the actress who played the stoic conrol freak Nurse Ratchet in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. IMO she is a Pam Bondi meme.

In a letter to AG Bondi, (aka, Nurse Ratchet of Justice), Wu repeated the theme of her rally: “Boston will never back down from being a beacon of freedom, and a home for everyone.”

In other words, bring it on. And by the way: Thanks, Donald Trump😌😒😜❗