From Sanctuary Cities to Street Armies: Leviathan’s War on Citizenship

The headlines say federal troops are coming to Illinois. ICE is calling for National Guard protection. Governor J.B. Pritzker is howling about federal overreach, while the media frames it as another Trump stunt.

But let’s be clear: the issue at hand is much larger than safeguarding ICE personnel.

This is power politics, pure and simple.

Let me explain: urban areas like Chicago are mini-states with single-party rule under Democrats; Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor in nearly a hundred years. The urban areas are then power bases for Democrats to have undue influence over the rest of a given state. Illinois is actually quite red were it not for Chicago and Cook County. Think about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Were it not for those two cities, Pennsylvania would essentially be North Alabama, solid red every Presidential election.

What Democrats do with their unchecked power is then create a system that perpetuates their power: bureaucracies, NGOs, etc., that are not about solving the problems of, say, homelessness or poor education or illegal immigration (far from it on that last issue). No: it’s about using taxpayer dollars to empower themselves and never solve any problems.

It’s their business model that then leads to perpetual political power.

But what happens if someone breaks Democrats’ business model in urban areas? What if Trump shows those who reside there that there is a better way? That there can be safety and security in communities, that there is real hope for the future? The Democrats’, and by extension Leviathan’s, power is significantly undermined.

That’s why there is such a visceral reaction with Progressive Democrats unleashing their Brownshirt Anitfa-types to enact political violence in the streets and stop the enforcement of federal immigration law. This is all very existential for Democrats.

Guarding Against Political Violence

Think about it: every time ICE agents carry out lawful duties in sanctuary cities like Chicago, they are met not with peaceful protest but with organized mobs. Some are true believers, but try to understand what’s going on: these are many times professional agitators—paid protestors bused in and funded through Democrats and Leviathan’s sprawling network of NGOs.

Their goal is simple: create enough chaos, enough violence, and enough intimidation to make enforcement impossible. ICE agents have been assaulted. Their vehicles vandalized. Their operations disrupted by flash riots coordinated on social media. Their homes and in some cases—families—doxxed. These aren’t spontaneous outbursts; they are strategies and tactical deployments of street power designed to nullify the law and preserve political power for Democrats.

That’s why the Guard is being deployed. Not to “police immigration,” but to protect the men and women tasked with enforcing the law from the storm of chaos Democrats and Leviathan have unleashed against them.

How Leviathan Uses Violence

Leviathan and its allies understand something most conservatives still struggle to admit: power politics doesn’t just flow from courtrooms and legislatures. It also flows from the ability to make the other side afraid to act.

By mobilizing professional street armies against ICE, Leviathan drives up the cost of enforcement until states and cities surrender. A law unenforced is a law erased. And once whole jurisdictions become “no-go zones” for immigration enforcement, Leviathan gets what it wanted all along: a de facto amnesty for millions, thereby building more political power.

At the same time, Leviathan uses the violence it sponsors to grow stronger. Every riot becomes an excuse for more funding to its NGO allies. Every clash becomes justification for new “community programs.” And every headline about “chaos in the streets” is used to frighten ordinary citizens into believing Leviathan alone can restore order—if only we give it more power.

Sanctuary Cities: Safe Havens for Leviathan

This is why sanctuary cities exist. They are not just places of refuge for illegal immigrants. They are fortresses for Democrats and Leviathan’s strategy—jurisdictions where law is selectively suspended, where agitators can operate with impunity, and where federal enforcement is treated as the enemy.

By creating zones where ICE agents are outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and under constant threat, Leviathan weaponizes local governments against national sovereignty. The sanctuary city is not an accident of liberal governance—it is a deliberate front line in Leviathan’s war on citizenship itself.

The Bigger Picture

The Guard’s deployment to Illinois is a symptom of a much deeper disease. Leviathan wants illegal immigration. It wants the instability, the crime, the overloaded schools, the stretched hospitals. Because each of those crises becomes another reason for Leviathan to grow; more bureaucracies to take taxpayers’ money to perpetuate single-party rule in urban areas with of course, problems never being solved.

Leviathan doesn’t want representative democracy. It wants control of the electorate. By eroding the rights of citizens, by importing dependency, by expanding benefits to non-citizens, it ensures its own political dominance. Street violence against ICE is just one piece of the larger plan: to make citizenship meaningless and sovereignty obsolete.

The Choice Ahead

In many ways this fight in Chicago is not really about Trump versus Pritzker, or Republicans versus Democrats. Fundamentally it is about power politics and rule of law and restoring Constitutional order. And whether America still has the will to enforce its own laws against Leviathan’s street armies.

If ICE can be beaten back by mobs, if federal agents must be shielded by troops just to do their jobs, then the rule of law itself is collapsing. And that collapse is not an accident—it is Leviathan’s design.

The Guard is being deployed because the Democrats, the ruling class, and the Administrative State have made political violence a weapon of policy. Until Americans confront that fact—and dismantle the machine that profits from it—every city will become Chicago.