Kylee Griswold writes for the Federalist about a malign presence in American culture.
It’s everywhere — from IG mommy accounts; food, fashion, and fitness influencers; nurses, nutritionists, and doulas; “deconstructionist” and progressive Christian pages; AWFULs (affluent white female urban liberals) who believe their silence would be literal violence; brand accounts that should have nothing to do with politics; and every other random acquaintance you’ve ever had who gets her news from Instagram reels and sourceless but effortlessly sharable graphics.
The information is low, but the emotion is high. On Instagram, you’ll learn that Immigration and Customs Enforcement used an innocent 5-year-old as “bait” and then arrested him (false — he was abandoned by his own illegal alien father). You’ll learn that mother and “legal observer” Renee Good was “gunned down” in the street (false — the ICE Watch agitator aimed a weapon, aka her two-ton SUV, at a federal officer who had previously been run over by an illegal alien and then accelerated, hitting him and reportedly causing internal bleeding). You’ll learn that the traumatic Cities Church disruption was First Amendment-protected speech (false — it was a direct violation of the FACE Act). You’ll learn that an innocent American citizen was dragged from her car on her way to a doctor’s appointment (false — she was parked in the middle of the street, ignored ICE’s lawful commands to move, and talked back to them despite warnings). You’ll learn that ICE “abducted” or “kidnapped” a U.S. citizen at the Target store where he works (false — they subdued and arrested him after video shows he assaulted an officer). You’ll learn that ICE is the Gestapo, Trump is Hitler, and immigrants are “law-abiding” — even if they’ve broken every one of our immigration laws. For each of these examples, there are dozens more.
Meanwhile, the Instagram army has had nothing to say about the billions of dollars in Somali fraud. Or about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz agitating for left-wing violence by implying his state was “at war with our federal government” and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE in what would amount to “an anti-federal insurrection.”
