Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

"At 11 p.m. Barnett declared, 'We will never surrender!" Then all hell broke loose much the way it has in minneapolis these last few days, but it was scarier. Trump has weather on his side—temperatures in minneapolis are unlikely to reach 15 degrees for the next week. and although Trump faces a cadre of trained activists, Kennedy faced an inchoate army of potentially thousands of good-ole boys who had guns and knew how to use them. Before the long night was through at Ole Miss 160 agents would be injured, nearly 30 of them shot.

"running out of options, President Kennedy invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807 and ordered the U.S. Army to suppress the riot. As William Doyle explains in his excellent book, American Insurrection, the Army was not easily mustered, especially since Robert Kennedy, way out of his depth, assumed responsibility for the mustering.

"The heroes of Doyle's book were the members of the Mississippi National Guard, good ole boys themselves who signed up for a mix of reasons unsuspecting that one day they would have to square off against their friends and neighbors.

"Kennedy had federalized the Guard as a caution two days before Meredith's planned arrival. They were nearby, but many doubted they would show up when called. Fortunately for the university, the state, and the country they did. Had they not, it is likely the rioters would have overrun the Lyceum and killed the federal agents within. The first U.S. Army troops arrived early the next morning. By midday, October 1, the rioting had been quelled.

"Had the national media sided with the insurrectionists, as they have clearly done in minneapolis, the nation might very well have embarked on Civil War 2.0. The Soviets may have been counting on this outcome. The Cuban Missile Crisis began two weeks after the dust settled at Ole Miss.

"In 1962, Democrats defended the right of a black veteran to attend law school. In 2026, they defend the right of illegal alien rapists, drug dealers, sex traffickers, murderers, and sundry gang bangers to remain free from federal custody. This is no longer the party of JFK. Hell, it is no longer even the party of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama."

N.S.: I was with Jack, until the last sentence.