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When you've lost Ammon Bundy -The anti-government militia leader can't
make sense of his allies' support of ICE
Ammon Bundy Is All Alone
The anti-government militia leader canAt make sense of his alliesA
support for ICE violence
Not so long ago, Ammon Bundy was the most famous right-wing militia
leader in America. His two armed standoffs with federal agents had made
him the face of the Patriot Movement: a loose assemblage of anti-
government extremists, Second Amendment maximalists, and more than a few
white nationalists. Even some mainstream elements of the Republican Party embraced him as a modern folk hero. But BundyAs criticism of the Trump administrationAs immigration crackdown now threatens to make him a pariah within his own community.
In November, Bundy self-published a long essay titled oThe Stranger,o in
which he labeled the Trump administrationAs treatment of undocumented immigrants a omoral failure.o oTo call such people criminals for lacking official permissiono to be in the country, he wrote, ois to forget the
moral law of God, the historical truth of our own founding, and the Constitutional ideals that continue to define justice.o On a recent
livestream following the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota, Bundy told
his audience that ICEAs conduct oclearly looks like tyranny.o If the government threatened his family, he said, he would fight back by
whatever means necessary.
I spoke with Bundy a few hours after federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. oItAs sickening to me,o he told me over the phone,
ojust to see the parallels of history repeating itself.o (In his November essay, he had compared the administrationAs treatment of immigrants to
the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.) He added,
oWhen it comes to the more humanitarian side of it, I think the left has
it much more correct than the nationalist right.o
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-ice/685849/
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